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2/16/2009
Deutsche Telekom Surveillance Scuffle Goes On (And On)
New developments in the Deutsche Telekom corporate spying scandal... The company had been trying to portray current management as being entirely uninvolved in the improprieties. New documents indicate that might not quite be the case. DT appears to have been spying on their current director of finance (among many others).

-- MDT

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6/08/2008
Lufthansa is the Latest German Corporation Forced to Admit Spying
Unlike the similar situations at Deutsche Telekom and railway, Deutsche Bahn, the folks at Lufthansa seemed to handle their overzealous investigation via their own security department, rather than seeking outside assistance.

Get the details, via Spiegel.

-- MDT

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6/04/2008
Former STASI Agents Used by Deutsche Telekom in Corporate Spying Campaign
Let's call it good PR.

Or, wait... Make that the other one.

-- MDT

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5/29/2008
Raid at Deutsche Telekom HQ
Investigators are seeking further information on the German telecom giant's organized spying campaign on journalists and company employees. Notably, DT has admitted surveilling Financial Times Deutschland reporter, Tasso Enzweiler. FTD is owned by mega-media conglomerate, Bertelsmann which has mad its own noises about pursing criminal and civil actions against the overzealous DT. Deutsche Telekom, for its part, is in full spin mode, announcing the company's own investigation into the illegal activities.

-- MDT

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5/27/2008
More on the Deutsche Telekom Spying Case
Between Time Magazine and Spiegel you should be pretty well up to date.

-- MDT

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5/26/2008
Deutsche Telekom Faces Criminal Probe on Corporate Spying
Someone didn't learn from the HP fiasco, it seems.

-- MDT

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4/08/2008
Details on the Start of the Deutsche Telekom Investor Class Action
Get the deets from BusinessWeek and SpiegelOnline.

-- MDT

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