Spied On by BP [1]

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Jess Worth, The New Internationalist [3]
Waking Times [4]

The aim of covert corporate strategy is not to win an argument, but to contain, intimidate and ultimately eliminate opposition

I discovered recently that I was being spied on by BP.

After a few years of increasingly intense activism targeting the company’s controversial entry into the tar sands, its abuse of Indigenous rights and its greenwash-soaked sponsorship of cultural institutions, I started to wonder if BP might be monitoring me.

So I submitted a ‘Subject Access Request’, requiring the company to send me all its files that mentioned me by name. The thick dossier of heavily redacted internal emails and documents I received made for surprising, unsettling, and sometimes hilarious read...