HP Spying Incident Included Journalists

rufey writes "It is now being reported that the HP boardroom spying incident that occurred earlier this year also involved obtaining phone records of journalists from at least two news outlets. Journalists from CNET and the Wall Street Journal had their phone records obtained through a method called 'pretexting' to see who, if any, of the HP board members the journalists may have been in contact with."

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Check out PJ's coverage at Groklaw

[rjamestaylor]

Be sure to follow Groklaw's coverage of the HP scandal.

This hits privacy and First Amendment issues to their core.

This is a legal matter and PJ has had her own share of similar hijinx in relation to her reporting on the SCO debacle.