Believe it or not, professional spy photographers.... and I mean, ALL professional spy photographers, all car magazines, and every media that buys automotive spy photography take more than just a dim view towards "spy" pictures taken while on company property.

Mr Doane if he's around can add to this.

 

I think they were. In addition to the ones were were told about, Im sure there are others that can be picked out from someone studying the pictures who are in the industry and can recognize something that may have been done with a new process or done differently.

To me it would seem this would be worse than if that employee stole a production Camaro Top car from the factory. You can recover or even write off a stolen car. You can even procecute them later. Once your competition learns your intelectual property you cant have them unlearn it. Even if the competition cant find a way to incorporate what was a trade secret, they at least know what theyre up against.

 

Spy photos are out in the open and this is inside a production facility, so this is illegal, and while I am not a lawyer this may be industrial espionage. By your reasoning any crime is no crime as long as you don't get caught. What a farce. Now you support illegal behavior by unethical thought. Just because we all have interest in the car doesn't mean someone should do whatever it takes to get us a photo a couple months ahead of actual production cars. I certainly would rather have waited than have this person lose their job and GM lose some advantages. By the way, with dropping and picking up jobs...ask the workers of the 4 closing plants GM announced today how they feel about that statement.