CorpWatch Exclusives
 | “Cyberazzi” – Data Mining Companies Investigated for Invasion of Privacy by Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch Blog January 21st, 2013 The paparazzi hide in bushes and use telephoto lenses to snap pictures of celebrities. The “cyberazzi” parachute into web browsers and sneak up behind mobile phones to spy on ordinary people. Nine such data mining companies must report what personal information they gather for sale by next week. |
 | An Uncomfortable Spotlight in Davos by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch January 31st, 2008 The CEOs of three-quarters of the world's 100 largest companies have just completed an uncomfortable weekend at the tiny Swiss ski resort of Davos, while their companies' share prices nosedived on global stock markets, amid concern that the U.S. economy is staggering towards recession. |
 | Domestic Spying, Inc. by Tim Shorrock , Special to CorpWatch November 27th, 2007 A new U.S. intelligence institution will allow government spy agencies to conduct broad surveillance and reconnaissance inside the country for the first time. Contractors like Boeing, BAE Systems, Harris Corporation, L-3 Communications and Science Applications International Corporation are already lining up for possible work. |
 | Intelligence in Iraq: L-3 Supplies Spy Support by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch August 9th, 2006 L-3 Communications, a little-known but gigantic military contractor, provides 300 contract intelligence experts to the Pentagon in Iraq to support operations ranging from interrogation to media analysis. The secretive $426.5 million operation, which is run out of Virginia, may be a recipe for disaster, say critics. Also see related story, A Translator's Tale, by Pratap Chatterjee. |
 | A Proxy Battle: Shareholders vs. CEOs by Kevin Kelleher, Special to CorpWatch June 13th, 2006 Earnest shareholder resolutions presented at company annual general meetings on everything from human rights to executive compensation are routinely shot down in flames. But shareholder resolutions may have an effect, even in defeat. |
 | Money for Nothing and Calls for Free by Nidhi Kumar and Nidhi Verghese, Special to CorpWatch February 17th, 2004 As the outsourcing of jobs has become a hot election year issue in the US, call centers in India continue to multiply. Local workers answer calls for US corporations at a fraction of the cost of an American worker. |
 | Talking Back to the Ganglords by Ted Nace, Gangs of America July 18th, 2003 Computer giant Intel lost a major lawsuit against a fired employee who sent email protest letters to his former colleagues, in a court decision that is a major victory for free speech and workers' rights. |
 | Precision Farming: The Marriage Between Agribusiness and Spy Technology by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, Special to CorpWatch October 2nd, 2002 Precision farming: high tech corporate responsibility or agribusiness expansion? We look at the use of satellites and new technology in farming. |
 | Williams Companies: Enron II by Wayne Madsen, Special to CorpWatch February 14th, 2002 Top executives say Williams Companies faces huge losses due to deals with Enron. But a lawsuit says they were covering up the company's own Enron-like activities. |
 | Homeland Security, Homeland Profits by Wayne Madsen, Special to CorpWatch December 21st, 2001 Government spy agencies seek new ways to monitor the Internet. Civil libertarians worry about privacy while software companies stand to make billions. |
| Peddling the E-Ticket to the Development Train by Sarah Anderson, Special to CorpWatch March 8th, 2001 As both the Democratic and Republican parties jockey to win the favor of the high-tech industry, U.S. trade officials under Clinton and now under the Bush Administration have been aggressively promoting high tech's global interests by breaking down barriers to electronic commerce. |
| Microsoft and Internet Development CorpWatch May 6th, 1998 What do computer programmers think about Microsoft's role in the development of the Internet, and the social implications of the underlying technical issues? We asked Harry Hochheiser, an Internet software developer and board member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility for his perspective. |
| Defying a Microsoft World View CorpWatch May 6th, 1998 Audrie Krause is the founder and executive director of NetAction. When this interview took place in January 1998, Microsoft had recently agreed under threat of a contempt of court citation in the US Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit, to allow personal computer manufacturers who install Windows to remove the Internet Explorer icon from the desktop. |
| Noam Chomsky on Microsoft and Corporate Control of the Internet CorpWatch May 6th, 1998 CorpWatch's Anna Couey and Joshua Karliner caught up with Noam Chomsky by telephone at his home in the Boston area to ask him about Microsoft and Bill Gates. The following is a transcript of our far ranging conversation. |
| Philippine Greens Protest the Visit of Bill Gates by Roberto Verzola, The Philippine Greens March 20th, 1998 A denunciation of Microsoft for pressuring the Philippine government to establish special laws and law enforcement forces to protect the corporation's software at the expense of educating Philippine students. |
| MITSUBISHI: The Most Environmentally Destructive Corporate Force on Earth by Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch December 1st, 1997 The best known, most prestigious, and largest keiretsu, is the Mitsubishi Group of companies. Given the size and reach of its diverse activities, and due to the fact that it is more heavily focused in polluting industrial sectors than other keiretsu, the Mitsubishi Group may well be the single most environmentally destructive corporate force on Earth. |
| Towards a Democratic Media System CorpWatch October 1st, 1997 Robert W. McChesney is Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Wisconsin, Madison talks about corporate control of the Internet in this CorpWatch interview. |
| Organizing the High Tech Industry CorpWatch February 10th, 1997 CorpWatch interviews John Barton, Organizing Coordinator, Building Service Division, of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and links up with other groups organizing for worker health and safety. |
| International Activist Profile: Ryoichi Terada Campaign for Responsible Technology February 10th, 1997 Ryoichi Terada, Professor of the Environment, Tsuru University, Tokyo confronts the high tech industry's ground water contamination in Japan. |
| The Globalization of High Tech by Carlos Plazola, Campaign for Responsible Technology February 10th, 1997 High-tech electronics industry representatives in the Silicon Valley are finally admitting that their facilities pose significant risks to surrounding communities (of course, they admitted this for liability and permit renewal purposes). A recent article in the San Jose Mercury News (6/18/96) described the struggle between LSI Logic and a neighboring Muslim school. |