In the past few weeks an alarming number of national and international cases of corporate spying have emerged revealing a clear pattern of abuse with no clear end in sight.… This chilling piece provides an frightening Overview of how we and the non-profits many of us depend on and support are being subjected to unwarranted and like Illegal surveillance not just by our *Big Brother* government, The Independent, and The Progressive, among others. — but by its Private Sector counterparts at the behest of plutocratic mega-corporations like the American Petroleum Institute (API) and flagrantly right-wingnut US Chamber of Commerce. There are a score of Recent links to such investigatory sources as Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden, the Center for Corporate Policy, The New Yorker and WaPo. — Its well worth a look IMO… While the FBI clearly makes investigating whether foreign governments are spying on corporations to obtain trade secrets a priority, it is not entirely clear whether the agency is doing much to hold corporations who spy on nonprofits and the public accountable… A secretive partnership between the FBI and the private sector, called InfraGard, designed to share intelligence, is, or could become, another avenue through which unethical or potentially illegal espionage against advocacy groups is conducted, according to director at the Center for Corporate Policy Gary Ruskin, who compiled a detailed report for the Center called Spooky Business (PDF file): corporatepolicy.org/spookybusiness.pdf In any case, it’s clear the FBI prioritizes cases in which corporations are spied on rather than cases of corporations unethically spying. (How are we to know what Other mega-corporations are involved but just havent been exposed yet? — Does anyone here believe that such firms as Monsanto, Apple, Microsoft, Boeing or the Koch Brothers empire wouldnt take advantage of insider information like this?)
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 21:57:37 +0000
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