How is it that Senator Schumer is immune from prosecution for this same tactic by a staff member who illegally gained access to Lt. Gov. Steele's credit information.
This is so unfair. HP has found something they are extremely competent at (in the last few years) and know people are complaining about it? They just can't win.
That depends on what the definition of "is" is.
This just keeps getting better. We now know that HP's investigations director told HP's ethics director what they were doing. The ethics counsel asked if it was legal, and his answer to the response was "I shouldn't have asked." Ethics counsel failed to act or further investigate on something he obviously wasn't comfortable with. That's bad.
"We didn't know" isn't going to work.
I wonder how many other companies employ the same tactics. In July of 2005, the company that my husband works for, bugged my computer and cell phone (they were in my husband's name). They had called my husband to the headquarters to grill him about the former president of the division and by the end of the next work day, I started receiving old emails from my home computer as text messages on my cell phone. It was really upsetting because the emails were from my son, in London, asking me to call him, and it was the middle of the night there. The next day, I started receiving emails that my husband was sending and receiving at work, on my cell phone. I asked a computer expert, here at FreeRepublic, and he said that my communications were being bugged and that the guy they hired to do it, had just messed up. A computer tech told me that at least four other people were logged on to my computer every time that I logged on. Every time that I downloaded new protective software, it was disabled.
They seem to have stopped in the last few weeks because I no longer get the message that other people are logged on to my computer when I try to shut it off.