Lawyers catch up with HP spying scandal

The first legal complaints have started to fall following the HP spying scandal. Verizon on Thursday (9/28) filed the first legal complaint in the case against a series of unnamed defendants.

The next day Cingular joined in with a legal complaint against both the CAS investigative firm that HP hired and its founder Charles Kelly – and threw in a slew of unnamed individuals and corporations.

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Filing the suits against the unnamed people (so-called John and Jane Does) allows for the names to be filled in at a later time, because the providers intend to find their identities through a legal discovery process.

The suits coincide with the congressional hearings this week. HP brass there was apologetic, but refused to take any personal blame or simply refused to testify.

That makes these lawsuits all the more important. HP has settled on a defence strategy that claims that the whole thing simply got out of hand. But these civil claims will allow us to pinpoint the real criminals and have a good old witchhunt.

For your reading pleasure, below you can find PDF documents with the legal complains from Verizon and Cingular.

Doc Download verizon.pdf

Download cingular.pdf

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Former HP chairman Patricia Dunn dodging questions at the Thursday hearing

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While we are taking on the topic of Lawyers catch up with HP spying scandal - Silicon Valley Sleuth , For some people, they feel as though the law is there merely to protect their interests, and that they have no need for daily interaction. However, they assume that if the day comes where their behaviour is called into question, the law will operate, the course of justice will be run, and the will of the people will be fulfilled. This is perhaps a naïve interpretation of the function of law, and indeed the way it operates in our lives throughout the day. For instance, at the top level we have the constitution, establishing parameters within which the government can and cannot act to protect the citizens of our nation. That has an overwhelming effect on the way in which our government and indeed our country is run, which has a knock on effect on everything we do throughout the day and how we do it. Even at a local level, the law interacts with the services we are provided, the jobs we work and pretty much everything to do with the lives we lead. A distant concept? I don't think so.

Posted by: Dallas Criminal Lawyer 05 Dec 2010

I wonder how the ethics folks inside HP will handle another big ethical violation from an HP "exec". Andy Mattes was just arrested in Germany for suspected fraud/embezzlement from his time at Siemens. (He was "separated" from Siemens for poor results - now he's under possible criminal prosecution. Maybe he can get a job advising the HP Board? HP press release - Jan. 2006 HP Names Andy Mattes to Lead Sales for Technology Solutions Group PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 4, 2006 HP today announced that it has appointed Andy W. Mattes, a long-time executive at Siemens AG, to serve as the head of sales for the Technology Solutions Group (TSG).

Posted by: valley watcher 19 Nov 2006

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