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WASHINGTON — Wireless carriers today said pretexting for telephone records should be criminalized, but were silent when it came to backing a bill imposing additional requirements on carriers to protect consumer records. Though far less publicized and attended than Thursday’s hearing on Hewlett-Packard’s pretexting scandal, the same House investigative panel met again Friday morning to […]

WASHINGTON –- The large Gone With the Wind poster with H.R. 4943 scrawled on it seemed to seal the fate of anti-pretexting legislation favored by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Yesterday during a hearing on Hewlett-Packard’s pretexting scandal, Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-Tex.) said the bill was in a “black hole,” but Friday morning […]

WASHINGTON –- Hewlett-Packard took a Capitol Hill hammering Thursday over its handling of a boardroom media leaks probe gone awry. Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd’s late afternoon testimony wrapped up a long, embarrassing day for HP  as lawmakers criticized both the ethics and dubious legal practices of one of the Silicon Valley’s most respected companies. […]

Former Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn plans to tell Congress today she only learned pretexting was used in a company investigation of boardroom media leaks until after the probe concluded. In prepared testimony for Thursday morning’s House hearing on the HP scandal, Dunn states she first heard of pretexting – assuming a false identity to obtain […]

Two key figures in HP’s pretexting scandal are now ex-employees. Kevin Hunsaker, HP’s senior counsel and director of ethics, left effective today, a company spokesman said. Anthony Gentilucci, HP Boston’s security manager, resigned yesterday. Former HP Chairman Patricia Dunn resigned Friday. The departures come just a day before HP is to appear before a U.S. […]

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee issued subpoenas today for two HP executives and a private investigator to appear before Thursday’s congressional hearing on HP’s pretexting scandal. Last week, the panel heading up the committee’s seven-month investigation into pretexting invited a number of HP executives and the outside firms they hired to sniff out […]

More than 1,100 laptops are missing from the Department of Commerce with 249 of them containing personally identifiable information. The agency issued the numbers Friday morning based on an inventory review from 2001 to the present. The review was prompted by public and congressional inquiries following a summer of embarrassing data breaches by the U.S. […]

WASHINGTON — The United States will continue its oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) after the current Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) expires next week. For how long, though, remains in doubt. “We are working with ICANN to negotiate the next phase of our continued partnership,” Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce […]

WASHINGTON — Telecom reform is dead in the U.S. Senate — until at least a November lame duck session, U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said today. Blame it on network neutrality, he added. With the Senate planning a Sept. 29 adjournment for the fall elections, Stevens told a packed luncheon sponsored by the Progress and […]

WASHINGTON –- U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales renewed his call for greater data retention by Internet service providers as part of the Department of Justice’s (DoJ) campaign against online child pornography. Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee this week, Gonzales told lawmakers the DoJ wants ISPs to retain more customer data for longer periods of […]

WASHINGTON — A federal task force on identity theft urged Congress today to require ID thieves pay victims for the time they spend restoring their credit. The recommendation was one of a half dozen suggestions the President’s Identity Task Force made in an interim report announced by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Federal Trade Commission […]

HP is guaranteed another embarrassing day in the sun over its pretexting scandal, this time with the cameras rolling and a national audience. Congress today requested Patricia Dunn, HP’s outgoing chairman of the board, other company officials and HP’s outside counsel to testify Sept. 28 before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Investigations and […]