However, police chiefs have in the past raised a “massive concern” that the activities of the corporate firms are barely regulated and completely uncontrolled. The cache shows how one of the firms, C2i International, used two infiltrators to acquire advance warning of demonstrations that were being mounted against firms and to feed this information to those firms. In the UK, Caterpillar hired a second corporate intelligence firm to monitor protesters in 2005, according to another set of leaked documents. However, it is not known whether Trump’s firm hired C2i. RBS said it no longer used corporate intelligence firms to gather information.

Source: The Guardian December 12, 2017 09:04 UTC