5.
Congress and state
legislatures should prohibit commercial dumpster diving -- the
practice of rummaging through trash to gain access to trade secrets
and other valuable or confidential information.
6. Congress and state legislatures should prohibit active duty law enforcement officials -- including state and local police, FBI, NSA, CIA, US military and Secret Service -- from conducting corporate espionage against nonprofit organizations.
7. Congress should legislate full transparency regarding espionage against nonprofits, by requiring all publicly-traded corporations that expend funds -- either directly or indirectly via law firms, PR firms or private investigators -- to conduct espionage against nonprofits to disclose the cost, tactics and targets of the espionage.
8.
Congress and state
legislatures should require all contractors with law enforcement or
intelligence agencies -- including state and local police, FBI,
NSA, CIA, US military and Secret Service -- to affirm in their
contracts that they will not conduct espionage against nonprofit
organizations.
9.
Congress should direct the
Inspector General of the Department of Justice to prepare an annual
report on law enforcement surveillance of nonprofits. Special
attention should be given to the evidence used to open
investigations and to how long investigations remain open, to
ensure that government resources are being used for actual law and
order and not as taxpayer-funded corporate security.
10. Congress and state legislatures should enact legislation sanctioning any police officer who abuses his or her authority when moonlighting (i.e., "using the badge" to gain access to areas or information unavailable to the public).
11.
Leaders of U.S. law enforcement and intelligence
agencies should warn both active duty and retired members of their
agencies that corporate espionage against nonprofit organizations
is unethical, intolerable and often illegal.
12.
Foundations and private donors should establish and
fund free-of-charge nonprofit security advisors, who can dispense
advice to nonprofits about how to protect against corporate
espionage.
Jessica Bell and Dan Spalding, "Security Culture for Activists." The Ruckus Society. A basic primer on how activists can protect themselves from government and corporate espionage.
Eamon Javers, Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy. (New York: HarperCollins, 2010).
Brian Glick, War at Home: Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and What We Can Do About It. (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1989).
Tom Devine and Tarek F. Maassarani, The Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide. (San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2011).
John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry. ( Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1995. ) See especially chapter 5, "Spies for Hire."
Eveline Lubbers, Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark: Corporate and Police Spying on Activists. (London: Pluto Press, 2012).
Heidi Boghosian, Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance. (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2013).
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