Cyveillance is an "internet intelligence company" helping multinationals to "knock out online brand damage." In other words spying on, and lying about, the anti-capitalist movement.

According to the laudatory article in Monday's Media Guardian (Sept 3 2001):
"The internet has long been regarded as the domain of the little man fighting a battle against the big corporations. Anti-corporate websites launched by activists, such as nikesucks.org, gapsucks.org and mcspotlight.org, are testament to this trend. Negative commentary in the form of product reviews, rumours, trade secrets or false corporate or product information is easily posted and costs companies about $1.5m a year."

Good! Unfortunately, Cyveillance International is trying to stop this: "Cyveillance enables businesses to capture revenue by taking control of their online brand identity, digital assets and corporate reputation." (www.cyveillance.co.uk)

"Last year, Cyveillance was able to inform a UK high street bank that one of its branches in the city of London was being targeted by May Day protesters, and tell it which window the activists were planning to throw a bomb through."
( http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,545786,00.html)

Cyveillance are obviously lying (and the hack swallows it): aside from the sheer ridiculousness of pinpointing the exact window, last years MayDay centred around Parliament Square not the City, and Cyveillance only opened a UK office in September 2000.

We should be concerned that this company is making up stories about terrorism to demonise the movement and prepare the way for state terror.
We should be concerned at any free market intelligence service, at any attempt to police us, on and off the net.

So here's their contact details (taken from their website, www.cyveillance.co.uk):

Cyveillance International
Global House
High Street, Crawley
West Sussex, RH10 1DN
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1293 455123
Fax: +44 (0) 1293 455124
 ukinfo@cyveillance.co.uk