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Corporate Espionage Continues, Will Congress Hold Hearings?

Burger King was once a proud native of Jacksonville Florida.

Holy Crap.

Burger King hired an unlicensed private security firm to spy on college students working to improve wages and living conditions for migrant farmers in Florida who harvest vegetables for the fast food industry. While McDonald's and Yum Brands (which owns Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC) agreed to slightly increase the wages of migrant workers and work to end slavery at their contracted farms, Burger King chose to hire Diplomatic Tactical Services -- a private security firm whose 25-year-old owner failed to obtain a private investigator's license -- to spy on the Student/Farmworker Alliance.

Recent investigations such as Mother Jones' reports about corporate spying on environmental groups confirm that companies like Burger King, Wal-Mart and ExxonMobil employ retired cops, former Secret Service, CIA and FBI agents to spy on activists who expose environmental and human rights abuses. Despite several recent reports of this potentially illegal activity, Congress so far refuses to launch hearings into corporate snooping.