Economic Espionage

"Economic Espionage is the clandestine collection of trade secrets or proprietary information about a company's competitor."

Basically economic espionage is the greasiest, and illegal, form of getting your competitors secrets via trespassing, theft, fraud, wire tapping, and even bribes!

Even going through a competitors trash is seen as EE, so don't get caught being a criminal, get someone else to do it for you!

Canadian and American companies lose billions of dollars each year by uncovering espionage in some form. This also shows that in order to better market yourself and company, you need to do this to get the upper hand.

In all fairness, if you have successfully wire tapped a competitor, you deserve all their secrets..