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HP chairman's fate undecided, wait scratch that

Patricia DunnHP Chairman Patricia Dunn hired a investigation company to discover where there may be information leaks to the media from HP's board of directors. The investigation company then hired a contractor who used pretexting, a questionable practice to obtain information on several board members and several members of the media. The contractor accessed personal phone records, by posing as someone other than who they were (pretexting) which is considered shady at best and is against HP's privacy policy. HP's privacy policy prohibits the use of what some deem "unethical" means to obtain data, which Dunn clearly violated, directly or not. Dunn stated that she was not aware the contractor had used such practices to obtain information. Who knows. Many are calling for Patricia Dunn's resignation from HP, though the board has not yet released a statement after their meeting on the subject. I guess you could say that HP obtained data under false pretexts, or something like that.


[Via News.com]

UPDATE: HP's board has just now decided to have Mark Hurd (President and CEO) take over for Patricia Dunn after Jan 2007. Dunn will remain a board member.

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