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enhanced_deficit
12-13-2013, 10:02 PM
Lawsuit accuses IBM of hiding China risks amid NSA spy scandal

Published: Friday, 13 Dec 2013 | 9:00 AM ET


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IBM has been sued by a shareholder who accused it of concealing how its ties to what became a major U.S. spying scandal reduced business in China and ultimately caused its market value to plunge more than $12 billion.

IBM lobbied Congress hard to pass a law letting it share personal data of customers in China and elsewhere with the U.S. National Security Agency in a bid to protect its intellectual property rights, according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
The plaintiff in the complaint, Louisiana Sheriffs' Pension & Relief Fund, said this threatened IBM hardware sales in China, particularly given a program known as Prism that let the NSA spy on that country through technology companies such as IBM.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101271322

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