ALSO CALLED: Espionage DEFINITION: Espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of national security purposes both by governments and by private organizations. Corporations have been known to spy on their competitors to gain a competitive advantage. Spying may involve the theft of trade secrets and/or the secret removal, copying,
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