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In our days, surveillance is being performed by all governments and many private companies. For US to be the only country that doesn't do it, it would be uncomp
by ced 10y ago
In our days, surveillance is being performed by all governments and many private companies. For US to be the only country that doesn't do it, it would be uncompetitive.
How does surveillance improve competitiveness?
- Cozumel 10y agoGovernments spy on other nations businesses, then pass the information back to their companies who process to undercut the competition (because they have all the information) Here's China doing it to America http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/10842339/America-sues-China-over-corporate-spying.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/10842339/A... 'According to the indictment, five hackers “stole trade secrets” which allowed Chinese companies to undercut their American competitors, or gave them “insight into [their] strategy and vulnerabilities”. ' And here's America doing it to everyone else (including allies both domestic and foreign) https://theintercept.com/2014/09/05/us-governments-plans-use-economic-espionage-benefit-american-corporations/ https://theintercept.com/2014/09/05/us-governments-plans-use...
- wbl 10y agoExcept that passing the information back never actually happened in The Intercept article.
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