UPDATE (05/13/2008): Burger King exec. is ousted over anti-worker Internet smear campaign. (Associated Press) The question remains whether Burger King CEO John Chidsey ordered the operation.
Writing in the New York Times, Eric Schlosser decries corporate spying against advocates for social change including Burger's King spying operation against the Student/Farmworker Alliance. Schlosser calls for a congressional investigation of the increasing use of spying programs by multinational corporations. (New York Times)
Also in the retail/fast food world, Schlosser cites the example of Wal-Mart spying on New York Times retail reporter Michael Barbaro. Starbucks has also been embroiled in a spying scandal in its campaign against union organizing among baristas. (The Independent via StarbucksUnion.org)