HOROWITZ, Richard. CI, law and ethics: the EEA revisited. Competitive Intelligence Magazine, volume 6, number 6, November-December 2003 (accessible at: http://www.scip.org/pdf/Horowitz.pdf ). Consulted the 04-05-07.
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“Law and ethics are important aspects of competitive intelligence (CI), both to the CI practitioner and firm and to the corporate clients who use their services. They are also topics that had been greatly debated in the years following the 1996 passage of the Economic Espionage Act (EEA), resulting in short-term concerns for the CI industry but with long-term positive implications. The EEA debate began in February 1997 when SCIP held a two-day symposium in Washington, D.C. analyzing the effect of EEA on CI. The EEA made theft of a trade secret a federal crime for the first time in U.S. history, generating concern and confusion over what was to be considered legal and ethical means of collecting competitive intelligence. Following the passage of the EEA, a spate of articles and presentations warned that this new law would jeopardize the activities of CI professionals and firms. Subsequent situations emerged where corporate clients of CI firms and in-house CI departments were being held back from properly doing their jobs based on these EEA concerns. One of the warnings given at SCIP’s February 1997 symposium: “Your industry is crawling with criminals and you may be one of them. So might your company . . . [the EEA] will surely lead to greater interest
in federal jurisdiction over civil trade secret disputes.”[…]
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DC Title: CI, law and ethics: the EEA revisited
DC Creator: HOROWITZ, Richard
DC Subject: competitive intelligence, economic espionage, business intelligence, law
DC Description: “Law and ethics are important aspects of competitive intelligence (CI), both to the CI practitioner and firm and to the corporate clients who use their services. They are also topics that had been greatly debated in the years following the 1996 passage of the Economic Espionage Act (EEA), resulting in short-term concerns for the CI industry but with long-term positive implications”
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Corporate spying grows
DEARNE, Karen. Corporate spying grows. The Australian, 04/09/02 (accessible at http://www.landfield.com/isn/mail-archive/2002/Apr/0052.html ). Consulted the 03-29-07.
The corporate spy trade is booming. One-quarter of Australia's largest companies admit they are involved in "competitive intelligence gathering", according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey.
The information-gathering techniques are almost always legal and carried out by trained professionals - often former government intelligence operatives highly trained in obtaining military and economic secrets.
But the operatives were spying on competing companies rather than foreign governments, and many companies were easy targets, PwC dispute analysis and investigations director Richard Batten said.
"Corporations have people trained to obtain raw data from a wide range of sources and apply traditional intelligence analysis techniques to produce usable information," he said.
"It's worrying to find 62 per cent of companies have no protection in place to stop the loss or theft of intellectual property -- even though 30 per cent admit already experiencing at least one incident."
Competitors were involved in 37 per cent of incidents reported by respondents to PwC's Intellectual Property Loss Survey 2001 -- up 15 per cent from the last survey, in 1998.
Mr Batten said most companies did not properly value their information and intellectual property, and were often unaware that data had been lost.
"If intelligence gathering is being done by a professional, the victim will probably know nothing about it," he said.
"If a customer list is copied and taken out of a company, the original list is still there and they may never know it has been taken."
Forty per cent of incidents were caused by people in a trusted relationship with the company -- employees, consultants and contractors -- up from 12 per cent in 1998.
"These people have internal access and it's easy for them to get information without having to break in or bribe someone," Mr Batten said.
"People get tempted - they may see the value of some information and try to sell it to a competitor."
Theft or loss of laptops was less of a worry than the behaviour of people using them in public places such as airports.
"Businessmen often work on sensitive projects on their laptops while they are in a frequent flyer lounge, on a plane or even in a taxi," he said.
"They don't pay any attention to who's sitting next to them and don't realise how much information can be seen or overheard by others."
Laptops should always be secured by encryption and passwords so data was not readily accessible to anyone who picked up a lost or stolen laptop, he said.
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How to protect IP:
Prepare an inventory that identifies the company's information and intellectual property crown jewels.
Devise a method of valuing these information resources to establish what material is worth protecting.
Undertake a risk management review of the total business operation to discover security deficiencies.
Once the information protection hotspots have been identified, controls can be put in place.
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DC Title: Corporate spying grows
DC Creator: DEARNE, Karen
DC Subject: business intelligence, corporate spies, competitive intelligence, business spying
DC Description: “The corporate spy trade is booming. One-quarter of Australia's largest companies admit they are involved in "competitive intelligence gathering", according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey.
The information-gathering techniques are almost always legal and carried out by trained professionals - often former government intelligence operatives highly trained in obtaining military and economic secrets.” […]
DC Publisher: The Australian
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DC Date: 04/09/02
DC Type: text
DC Format: HTML
DC Identifier: http://www.landfield.com/isn/mail-archive/2002/Apr/0052.html
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The corporate spy trade is booming. One-quarter of Australia's largest companies admit they are involved in "competitive intelligence gathering", according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey.
The information-gathering techniques are almost always legal and carried out by trained professionals - often former government intelligence operatives highly trained in obtaining military and economic secrets.
But the operatives were spying on competing companies rather than foreign governments, and many companies were easy targets, PwC dispute analysis and investigations director Richard Batten said.
"Corporations have people trained to obtain raw data from a wide range of sources and apply traditional intelligence analysis techniques to produce usable information," he said.
"It's worrying to find 62 per cent of companies have no protection in place to stop the loss or theft of intellectual property -- even though 30 per cent admit already experiencing at least one incident."
Competitors were involved in 37 per cent of incidents reported by respondents to PwC's Intellectual Property Loss Survey 2001 -- up 15 per cent from the last survey, in 1998.
Mr Batten said most companies did not properly value their information and intellectual property, and were often unaware that data had been lost.
"If intelligence gathering is being done by a professional, the victim will probably know nothing about it," he said.
"If a customer list is copied and taken out of a company, the original list is still there and they may never know it has been taken."
Forty per cent of incidents were caused by people in a trusted relationship with the company -- employees, consultants and contractors -- up from 12 per cent in 1998.
"These people have internal access and it's easy for them to get information without having to break in or bribe someone," Mr Batten said.
"People get tempted - they may see the value of some information and try to sell it to a competitor."
Theft or loss of laptops was less of a worry than the behaviour of people using them in public places such as airports.
"Businessmen often work on sensitive projects on their laptops while they are in a frequent flyer lounge, on a plane or even in a taxi," he said.
"They don't pay any attention to who's sitting next to them and don't realise how much information can be seen or overheard by others."
Laptops should always be secured by encryption and passwords so data was not readily accessible to anyone who picked up a lost or stolen laptop, he said.
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How to protect IP:
Prepare an inventory that identifies the company's information and intellectual property crown jewels.
Devise a method of valuing these information resources to establish what material is worth protecting.
Undertake a risk management review of the total business operation to discover security deficiencies.
Once the information protection hotspots have been identified, controls can be put in place.
Dublin core analysis
DC Title: Corporate spying grows
DC Creator: DEARNE, Karen
DC Subject: business intelligence, corporate spies, competitive intelligence, business spying
DC Description: “The corporate spy trade is booming. One-quarter of Australia's largest companies admit they are involved in "competitive intelligence gathering", according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey.
The information-gathering techniques are almost always legal and carried out by trained professionals - often former government intelligence operatives highly trained in obtaining military and economic secrets.” […]
DC Publisher: The Australian
DC Contributor:
DC Date: 04/09/02
DC Type: text
DC Format: HTML
DC Identifier: http://www.landfield.com/isn/mail-archive/2002/Apr/0052.html
DC Source:
DC Language: English
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DC Coverage: Australia
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