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| Deutsche Telekom Secretly Tracked Phone Calls                      |
|   from the mercantilism-strikes-back dept.                         |
|   posted by timothy on Tuesday May 27, @10:53 (Privacy)            |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/149248 |
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[0]Dekortage writes “German telephone giant Deutsche Telekom has admitted
to [1]secretly tracking the phone calls between board members and
journalists, in an effort to identify media leaks about internal affairs.
As [2]noted by the German Journalists’ Association, ‘This company has
special access to the records of its customers…. That means it has a
special obligation to be trustworthy.’ DT denies having eavesdropped; it
merely tracked the calls dialed.”

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Links:
0. http://www.arrowbay.net/
1. http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,555664,00.html
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/business/worldbusiness/27tapes.html?pagewanted=all