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Poking Your Nose in Other People's Business

Date: January 7, 2002
Author: Anne Fisher
QUOTE: How much spying does your company do--and how much will it admit to?

ABSTRACT: Although the Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals has a code of ethics that strictly forbids gathering data under false pretenses, employees at some companies are commonly asked to commit unethical practices such as calling competing companies while pretending to be a naive customer and using fake company names, cloaked 800 numbers, and fictitious websites. This article examines the issue and considers what an employee should do when asked to participate in such unethical practices.

--Sarah Beck

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