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Am i supposed to believe all the companies participated in the program just out of the goodness of their hearts?

Yeah right... Anybody want to dig deeper see what they got for participating?

Should be self explanatory. What would companies in say the manufacturing industry want? ... access to sensitive foreign competitors data stored on the cloud.

Industrial espionage plain and simple. It's in the interest of both the US government (to increase domestic economic activity) and said business to share this information.

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