Three journalists targeted in Patricia Dunn's Kona II leak investigation have retained the services of Panish Shea & Boyle and plan to sue HP for invasion of privacy.

Dawn Kawamoto, Stephen Shankland and Tom Krazit, who all work for CNet's online news service, are not seeking monetary compensation. Rather, they are seeking punative measures against HP for the company's conduct, which included obtaining the journalists phone records under false pretenses - pretexting.

For another account of how HP treated journalists throughout their Kona II investigation, recall the account of the Wall Street Journal's Pu Wing Tam "HP Had me Surveilled for a Year."

-- MDT

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