Wal-Mart Monitoring e-Mails of Non-Employees?
Wal-Mart Stores said it fired a systems technician for intercepting text messages and recording telephone conversations without authorization.More here.
The Bentonville, Ark., retailer said it took the action after an internal investigation revealed the employee had monitored and recorded conversations between the company's public relations staff and a reporter from the New York Times over a four-month period between September 2006 and January.
The technician, in separate instances, also intercepted text messages and pages, including communications that did not involve Wal-Mart associates.
On Thursday, Wal-Mart learned the U.S. Attorney's office would conduct its own investigation of the pager intercepts and phone call recordings.
The FBI in Washington, D.C., said the agency is reviewing the information from Wal-Mart "to determine if there was a violation of federal law and if the FBI has jurisdiction."
The employee was not identified by the company.
(Props, Consumerist.)
posted by Fergie @ 3/05/2007 12:36:00 PM
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