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Re:Uber Accused of Espionage, Bribery, Hacking, in Former Em... by solatic on Friday December 15, 2017 @09:17PM (#15937016)
IANAL but definitions of espionage are typically broader than that - if the information isn't published with the intention for it to become public knowledge, or at least somehow knowingly divulged (e.g. EULA/contractual), then it's private, and collecting (i.e. recording) the data which is private to a company or society is espionage.
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Re:Uber Accused of Espionage, Bribery, Hacking, in Former Em... by skybrian on Friday December 15, 2017 @10:28PM (#15937275)
Well sure, the word "espionage" can be certainly be used to make things that aren't illegal or immoral sound bad.

Employees and other people sign contracts to keep company information private, but nobody else (including journalists, competitors, investors, or just anyone curious about them) is required to help them. We can share what we know and gossip about it.

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Re:Uber Accused of Espionage, Bribery, Hacking, in Former Em... by vageli on Friday December 15, 2017 @10:56PM (#15937482)
How can someone derive publisher's intent from the content alone? If data is left on a publicly accessible URL, how do I know it's because a dev forgot to enable s3 bucket encryption?
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