Thursday, April 28, 2011

Economic Espionage Act

A two-year effort on the part of the FBI and U.S. industry professionals in the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. Prior to enactment of this act, there was virtually no federal statute that outlawed the theft of trade secrets. Canadian Xiaodong Sheldon Meng was the first person convicted under the act in 2007 for providing U.S. military application trade secrets to the Peoples Republic of China.
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