>NSA harvesting data from Samsung and then passing it to Apple, which is the type of stuff that we have no evidence of thus far. There have been many, many sto

>NSA harvesting data from Samsung and then passing it to Apple, which is the type of stuff that we have no evidence of thus far. There have been many, many stories published in the world's leading newspapers about NSA industrial espionage: http://www.globalresearch.ca/nsa-busted-conducting-industrial-espionage-in-france-mexico-brazil-china-and-all-around-the-world/5355026 http://www.globalresearch.ca/nsa-busted-conducting-industria... The NSA's own slides list "economic" as one of the main reasons for spying. And none of this is at all new: https://www.fas.org/irp/program/process/991101-echelon-mj.htm https://www.fas.org/irp/program/process/991101-echelon-mj.ht... http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1999/11/outfront-0 http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1999/11/outfront-0 I would also point out that U.S. law specifically criminalizes economic espionage on behalf of foreign governments, but economic espionage on behalf of the U.S. government is not illegal. TL;DR: It's absurd to think that the NSA isn't spying for economic information. Tons of evidence has been presented.