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Verizon Wireless employees snooped on Obama's cell phone records
Published: November 26, 2008
Look, this is why no president should ever use e-mail or a BlackBerry or any other kind of consumer-level electronic communication:
Records from a cell phone used by President-elect Obama were improperly breached, apparently by employees of the cell phone company, Verizon Wireless said Thursday.
An Obama spokesman stated the transition team was told Verizon Wireless workers looked through billing records.…
[Lowell McAdam, Verizon Wireless president and CEO,] stated the device on the account was a simple voice flip-phone, not a BlackBerry or other smartphone designed for e-mail or other data services, so none of Obama’s e-mail could have been accessed.
Verizon Wireless, meanwhile, has launched an internal probe to determine whether Obama’s information was simply shared among employees or whether “the information of our customer had in any way been compromised outside our company, and this investigation continues,” McAdam said in an internal company e-mail obtained by CNN.
It goes without saying (but I’ll state it anyway) that this breach, as well as the hack on Sarah Palin’s e-mail, should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
But if the President-elect insists on keeping his personal e-mail and phone when he takes office, expect more of these types of stories.
