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· A method for obtaining personal information that's assumed to be private by pretending to be that person.
· A technique commonly used by private investigators searching for individual phone, credit card and financial records.
· How private investigators working for Hewlett-Packard Co., looking for the source of press leaks, obtained telephone records of one of its directors and nine journalists.
· According to a law firm advising HP, a tactic that is "not generally unlawful."
· According to California's attorney general, an activity that is currently subject to criminal and civil prosecution.
· Activity that would be prohibited under various proposals being considered by Congress and already passed by both houses of the California legislature.
-- S.P.
