September 06, 2006
HP Under Investigation For Investigating Board Member
Your company has sensitive information and you think that one of your high-profile board members - not employees - is leaking details to the media. What do you do? If you're Hewlett-Packard's Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, you hire private investigators and obtain phone records [CRN] for the suspects. Problem is, those investigators used illegal means to acquire those phone records. Now, the California attorney general is investigating the whole mess.
Acts like Sarbanes-Oxley (aka Sarbox) were designed to protect investors by instituting a number of measures that would ensure transparency in accounting procedures of public companies. The act might even be interpreted in such a manner that a company would decide to record all employee conversations for Sarbox and even CALEA reasons. In this case, however, the records of home and cell phone calls of board member George A Keyworth were obtained, which I'm assuming is out of the scope of both Sarbox and CALEA.
In light of this, I'm wondering if soft VoIP calls stand a chance of not being put under the domain of CALEA. Soft VoIP does not yet have a backdoor (for law enforcement) for recording calls, but some politicians are pushing for it, for dubious reasons.
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