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In reply to the discussion: Could you be friends with a Nazi?? [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)is employing people to monitor all public communications about walmart, including letters to the editor in some podunk newspaper now considered 'business intel'? i know what walmart does in my local community, and it is hard-core spying with political targeting of 'enemies'.
is sending phoney 'journalists' into labor press conferences now 'business intel'?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/14/union-workers-walmart-spy
Fired Wal-Mart technician alleged the worlds largest retailer has been spying on its workers, critics, vendors and consultants. The company defended its security practices.
Wal-Mart declined to comment on specific allegations made by 19-year veteran Bruce Gabbard to the Wall Street Journal in a report published Wednesday. Wal-Mart reiterated that it had fired Gabbard, 44, and his supervisor last month for violating company policy by recording phone calls and intercepting pager messages.
Wal-Mart made the case public last month and denied Gabbards claims that his actions were the result of pressure from Kenneth Senser, a former senior CIA and FBI official who has headed Wal-Marts office of global security since 2003. Another FBI veteran, Joseph Lewis, is head of corporate investigations under Senser.
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/04/05/fired-technician-claims-wal-mart-spies-on-everyone/
Corporations also spy on other businesses, on governments, and on politicians. They spy domestically and they spy overseas. They run covert operations.
All large corporations run full-blown intelligence operations, and always have. If you aren't aware of that, you don't know much about business.