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This 5-page paper focuses on whether board chair Patricia Dunn should have been ousted in 2006 for her role in Hewlett-Packard's pretexting to find a leak. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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team on the case to dig out information. Not only that, but the HPs investigators used pretexting, in other words, calling up phone companies and pretending to be the directors
in order to gain access to the records (Kaplan, 2006). Nor did the pretexting stop at the directors - the investigators also pretexted phone records of journalists at the New
York Times and Wall Street Journal (Kaplan, 2006). Dunn was ultimately forced out of her position, despite her claim that the problem was less of a legal one and more
of a spat between herself and Tom Perkins, another director (Kaplan, 2006). Perkins, being hacked himself, probably had a right to be upset about the whole scenario. He ended up
resigning and he kept pushing HP to fire Dunn. The question we ask ourselves here is whether Dunn should have been
forced out for engineering the private investigators who ultimately pretexted in order to secure a leak that might have been damaging to HPs competitive position. To determine this, we need
to first decide if what Dunn did was actually legal (though her attorneys claim it was). Then we need to move onto the moral and ethical scenario of these actions.
Mark Rasch wrote in 2006 that part of the HP dilemma was that it hit at the core of what worries
a lot of people, namely, invasion of privacy. The whole scenario, he points out, creates questions about who owns personal information, who is responsible for it and, perhaps just as
important, how a company should conduct its internal (and external) investigations if it suspects some kind of a trade leak (Rasch, 2006).
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