Let’s start the work week with a news story on workplace surveillance. Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane report: A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration against a group of its own scientists used an enemies list of sorts as it secretly captured thousands of e-mails that the disgruntled scientists sent privately to…
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Charges dropped against man accused of reading wife’s e-mail; she snooped, too
Wow. After two years of following a case where an ex-husband was charged with a felony for snooping on his ex-wife’s email, I just read that the case was dropped at the 11th hour. L.L. Brasier reports: Prosecutors dropped felony charges Friday against a Rochester Hills man accused of snooping in his wife’s e-mail after…
Father-son investigative team sentenced in fraud case after working for Hewlett-Packard
Two former private investigators were each sentenced Thursday to three years of probation for their roles in an infamous Silicon Valley spying scandal in which prosecutors said they used false identities to access the Social Security numbers and other information on Hewlett-Packard board members, employees and journalists. Read more from Associated Press on The Washington…
Judge: Identify writer on blog
Thomas Clouse reports: The Spokesman-Review must provide information that could identify an anonymous reader who typed a disparaging online comment about the chairwoman of the Kootenai County Republican Party in February, an Idaho judge ruled Tuesday. The attorney for the chairwoman, Tina Jacobson, subpoenaed the identities of three Huckleberries Online readers who commented under assumed…