CI, law and ethics: the EEA revisited

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”
DC Publisher: Competitive Intelligence Magazine
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DC Date: November-December 2003
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DC Format: PDF
DC Identifier: http://www.scip.org/pdf/Horowitz.pdf
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DC Language: English
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