Phone Giant in Germany Stirs a Furor

Deutsche Telekom surreptitiously tracked thousands of phone calls to identify the source of leaks to the news media about its internal affairs. The New York Times reports.

"The disclosure, which was prompted by a report on Saturday on the Web site of the news magazine Der Spiegel set off a storm of protest from privacy advocates, journalists, and labor representatives at the company."

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