Big business haters may have another problem, one that's been lurking around since 2005. The Domestic Security Alliance Council sounds nice, but it's actually helping nobody but the big corporations. The FBI shares tons of information with over 200 of America's largest companies.
In December of 2005 the DSAC was created to "bridge the information divide between America's private and public sectors." The American companies that participate in the DSAC account for over a third of the gross domestic product in the United States. That is a huge percentage of American business.
The DSAC's mission statement states that it is "a strategic partnership between the FBI and the U.S. Private sector" to promote a wide open exchange of information. The FBI gets valuable information to prevent criminal activity involving interstate commerce and the big companies get a healthy helping of personal information to bombard your mailboxes and email. Don't worry though, it's all supervised by the Department of Homeland Security.
Participants include Bank of America, American Express, United Airlines, Boeing, Walmart and General Electric among others.
Released documents in December of 2012 showed that the FBI spied on Occupy Wall Street organizers and met with financial firms to notify them. Informants were used to infiltrate and monitor protests and promptly updated the financial companies.
