From Good Morning Silicon Valley on the growing HP bugging scandal…

In interviews Friday, [H.P. CEO] Dunn said she was “appalled” to learn that investigators retained by the company were posing as board members to obtain their personal information, adding she’d never heard this practice described as “pretexting” until August. “I had never heard the word before that,” Dunn said. “I found out shortly after that that pretexting could involve a form of fraud.” Could? How about often does? How else are you going to get these kinds of records without government subpoena or their owners’ consent?