This is amazingly outrageous indeed. The chairperson of HP board Patricia Dunn hired private investigators to track down the personal phone records of every HP board member showing scant respect for the law. The incident that made Patricia Dunn take this atrocious step was due to one of the board members George Keyworth leaking confidential inside information to the press.

Anyway, Dunn managed to track down Keyworth as the culprit of leaking the info. Now, the news is that George Keyworth is not going to be renominated in the HP board.

So much for corporate ethics.

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