zdnet has this. Verizon fires workers who snooped on Obama cell records
It was an old, flip-top phone, not his famous BlackBerry, and the account had been inactive for months. No text messages or voicemail contents could have been accessed. The employees were satisfying “idle curiosity,” a source told CNN, and the employees were not authorized to access customer records.
Verizon said, in an internal memo, that it has launched an internal investigation into whether the records “of our customer had in any way been compromised outside our company, and this investigation continues.”
The company has also notified federal law enforcement agencies.
State workers that spy on Joe get a slap on the wrist and peole that looked at old phone numbers get fired.
Submit to Stumbled Upon!
Or that professor who posted the names of his students who had been caught plagiarizing. The professor got fired, the students stayed.
That’s the way it rolls, now.
genes, from where I sit, this is less about the difference between parties, and more about the difference between government and private. A private company can be prosecuted or sued for the actions of its’ agents; government, not so much.