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Re:New WikiLeaks Documents Reveal NSA Spied on French Companies by TeMPOraL on Monday June 29, 2015 @06:14PM (#9801524)
I wonder if this even makes sense. Today multinational corporations are becoming sovereign trans-national governments. Why would the NSA want to help protect Corporation X or its US branch, if said corporation may be a potential threat to national security?
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Re:New WikiLeaks Documents Reveal NSA Spied on French Companies by rjaco31 on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @04:24AM (#9803736)
I have yet to see any single example of 'sovereign trans-national' corporations, AFAIK big companies are definitely from their mother-country, no matter how many subsidiaries or branches they have.
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Re:New WikiLeaks Documents Reveal NSA Spied on French Companies by TeMPOraL on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @04:51AM (#9803818)
There've been cases of big companies suing whole countries (Philip Morris vs Australia comes to mind). While they may be not technically sovereign entities yet, it seems to me that some megacorps have enough power to successfully compete with governments.
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Re:New WikiLeaks Documents Reveal NSA Spied on French Companies by rjaco31 on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @05:11AM (#9803877)
Sure, but they still remain US companies, and it's basically the main fact that allow them to do so (the US government negotiated treaties with countries so that US companies can sue their government).
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