we all know corporate spying goes on

this goes beyond the pale though. spying on a high school student in a science fair? people who were concerned about care the elderly were receiving? people who were concerned the food we were eating wasn't approved for human consumption?
i guess j. edgar is alive and well

Corporate Espionage Detailed in Documents

Defunct Md. Agency Targeted Activists

By Jenna Johnson

Washington Post Staff Writer

They scavenged through trash and tailed people for hours. They used undercover operatives to infiltrate private meetings. The targets were not agents of foreign powers but advocacy groups that had been critical of corporations.

In the 1990s, a Maryland-based private detective agency composed of former CIA agents and law enforcement officers spied on such activist groups as Greenpeace, the firm's records show.

The agency, Beckett Brown International, had an operative at meetings of a group in Rockville that accused a nursing home of substandard care. In Louisiana, it kept tabs on environmental activists after a chemical spill. In Washington, it spied on food safety activists who had found taco shells made with genetically modified corn not approved for human consumption..............