September 27, 2006
The HP Phone Privacy Saga Continues
The US House of Representatives has been busy subpoenaing people, including five private investigators and at least two HP executives, for the House probe into the Hewlett-Packard scandal. The whole mess was precipitated by now-former Chair Patricia Dunn when she had PIs access the private phone records of some board members.
Her actions were outside of any legal action such as CALEA. In fact, records were obtained by pretexting, an illegal method that involves having people impersonate someone else to access records. (I've had something similar happen to me. A now ex-friend impersonated me just over ten years ago and convinced my phone company at the time to transfer yet another person's phone bill to my phone. After a shouting match with the company, who denied they'd ever do such a thing - despite my friend's confession - I switched to cell phones, and now VoIP, and have not owned a landline since.)
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