Former Twitter Employee Sentenced to 42 Months for Acting as a Foreign Agent

Well you can go to jail for selling corporate private data to foreign governments too. There were some cases of nationals from China doing this.

There are even espionage laws.

You need such laws to be a good place of business.

I think it became politics when he became an agent of a foreign government.

I thought the same thing as well but apparently the law is broader than just direct interactions with government.

How is this outside of politics? He was dealing with the royal family.