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Hewlett-Packard has agreed to a financial settlement with The New York Times and three BusinessWeek magazine journalists in connection with the company’s spying scandal, which stemmed from its surreptitiously obtaining private phone records…
To trace what Dunn and others considered disloyal and risky leaks from the company’s board, HP retained investigators who engaged in a wide-ranging investigation in 2006. The inquiry involved “pretexting,” a practice that had someone pretending to be someone else to obtain private records from phone companies…
The New York Times said it had pursued a claim against Hewlett-Packard in part to send the message that “corporate misconduct aimed at silencing the press is not acceptable and will not be tolerated.” The Times pursued the claim on Markoff’s behalf, and he did not individually seek compensation.
The Times donated its money from the settlement to groups including the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Investigative Journalism Program at the journalism school of the University of California, Berkeley…
When will they ever learn…?
So who is doing the hard time (behind bars) for the hack?
Let’s have some LAW AND ORDER here, How about the DEATH PENALTY FOR CORPORATE SPYING – ALL THE WAY TO THE BOARD ROOM !!! That should put an end to it, or the PERPS !!!
screw that #2, lets have the death penalty for parking violations, that will cure all the ills of the world……..
Have they booted CF off of FBC yet?
She looks like she could have some sex…..