Talk:Industrial espionage
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Can United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, is used for political espionage and occasionally to help American companies against European competitors."anyone give a clear and precise definition of the difference bewteen industrial espionage and business intelligence?
They overlap. But at the extremes, if it's illegal, such as being devious to get info, it's espionage.GangofOne 19:47, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
One thing not mentioned is espionage to get technical information. Like when guy from one computer company snuck in to look at a prototype of other company's machine. See Soul of a New Machine for example. (It wasn't illegal, then)GangofOne 19:47, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
"The United States government has admitted to using commercial espionage, for instance using surveillance of phone calls to determine that a French competitor of a US firm was bribing Brazilian officials to obtain an air traffic control radar contract (it was later revealed that the US firm was also bribing officials). It is generally believed that most large intelligence agencies are involved in the practice. A commission of the European Parliament suspects that ECHELON, a communications espionage system operated by the NSA and agencies of the
This needs references. Books, news articles. etc.GangofOne 19:47, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
Would this corporate example be worth including? (Ringling circus vs critics) [1] [2]
[edit] References required
The claims in the second half should have at least one reference each.
20:12, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
