INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE

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Definitions

the act of spying on or attempting to surreptitiously obtain confidential or classified information from or about a rival business or its products or services. Bribery of rival company employees to obtain data, plans, formulas, designs, etc., hiring on with a rival company to gain data, use of electronic equipment to record or photograph data, etc., are common forms of industrial espionage.