In Friday’s San Fransico Chronicle:
Hewlett-Packard Says It Spied On Reporters
An investigator for Hewlett-Packard Co. secretly obtained phone records of nine journalists, including reporters for Cnet Networks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, adding a bizarre twist to a boardroom drama that has transfixed Silicon Valley and has prompted an investigation by the state attorney general.
The snooping, disclosed Thursday by Hewlett-Packard, follows recent revelations about similar spying by the company’s hired investigators on its own board members as part of an effort to unmask who on the board leaked inside information to the media.