corporate spying
Stealing trade secrets
Corporate spying is the covert gathering of confidential business information from competitors or other organizations.
Methods range from hacking and surveillance to infiltrating employees or bribing insiders.
The term covers both illegal industrial espionage and aggressive-but-legal intelligence gathering: The lawsuit alleged corporate spying through stolen trade secrets.
Also called corporate espionage.
- trade secretsProtected commercial knowledge
- competitive advantageFactor enabling market outperformance
- intellectual property lawLegal protection for creations
- non-disclosure agreementContract binding parties to secrecy
- hackingInfiltrating protected digital systems
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- corporate espionagetrade secrets, moles, formulas, infiltration, intellectual property
- union bustingunion busting, strikebreaker, strikebreaking, scabs, scab
- privacyprivacy, private, seclusion, confidentiality, solitude
- surveillancesurveillance, CCTV, security camera, surveillance camera, surveillance cameras
corporate spyinggovernment surveillance
Official observation of citizens
military intelligence · NSA surveillance · CIA operations · counterintelligence
corporate spyingcorporate transparency
Companies disclosing operations publicly
public disclosure · full disclosure · collaborative research · knowledge sharing · press release
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