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    • HP board mum on chairman's fate after witch hunt

      Posted by Billbar from News.com

      Chairman Patricia Dunn has been at the center of a controversy involving the ordinarily secret activities of HP's boardroom. After leaks to the press beginning in 2005, Dunn ordered an investigation of board members that led one to resign and put the post of another in jeopardy. special coverage HP's boardroom drama Investigation into media leaks used controversial data-gathering method, SEC filing confirms. HP said in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it hired an investigation company to try to track down board leaks to the media. The investigators in turn hired a contractor that used pretexting to scrutinize board members, HP said. Pretexting is the practice of one person masquerading as another to obtain private information such as phone records. The technology giant acknowledged on Thursday that investigators accessed the phone records of nine reporters, including three from News.com.

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