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May 29, 2008 8:58 am US/Pacific

FTC, Private Investigators Settle Over HP Spy Case

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PALO ALTO (BCN) ― The Federal Trade Commission has announced a $600,000 settlement with several of the private investigators involved in a 2006 Hewlett-Packard spying case.

Four private investigators, Joseph Depante, his son Matthew Depante, Cassandra Selvage and Bryan Wagner, agreed to an injunction forbidding them from obtaining individuals' phone records without consent in addition to the financial settlement, according to the FTC announcement.

Matthew Depante and Bryan Wagner were defendants in the 2006 HP case. They allegedly obtained the personal phone records of several journalists and HP board members by "pretexting," falsely identifying themselves as the owner of a personal or cell phone and providing some personal information to the phone company to obtain the records of a particular phone number.

The scandal led to the resignation of then HP Board of Directors Chairwoman Patricia Dunn.

The settlement was filed in a federal court in Florida.

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