What is industrial espionage?
Espionage is the process of obtaining secret information by using spies, secret agents or illegal monitoring devices.
Industrial espionage is getting trade secrets from business compet itors. It is a reaction to the efforts of many businessmen to keep secret their designs, manufacturing processes, research and future plans to protect or expand their share of the market.
A employee may secretly sell confidential information to compet itors. Another technique is when several employees leave a company and set up a rival firm capitalising on information they gained while at the former company.
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