Somebody had to have asked that question in the legal department at Hewlett-Packard when board chair Patricia Dunn commissioned her investigation into who among her peers on the board had been “leaking”. Too bad they didn’t realize what they were doing.
Let’s hope we’ll all be better off as one more requirement emerges for serving on any company’s board of directors – a privacy policy with respect to honoring each director’s privacy!
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An interesting detail of this whole fiasco is the replacement of the word “lie” with “pretexting.” Did people really think that these activities were legitimate by calling them by a euphemism?