The Legal Intelligencer Surveillance videos are not protected under the work product doctrine and must be turned over in discovery, a Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge has ruled. Merck used the plaintiff's picture alongside a fictionalized story of a woman infected with both AIDS and herpes who knowingly conceived an HIV-infected child. In normal times, constitutional questions about civil liberties and executive power swirl around the U.S. Supreme Court, not the White House. But the times are not normal as the high court opens a quiet but important term in the shadow of a nation's war with terrorism. The 2001-2002 docket is unfolding with potentially significant ramifications for business and civil liberties.
Hackers play a similar game, but it's neither trivial nor televised.
If they can't break through the corporate walls in cyberspace, perhaps they can attack the counselors to corporate America. Life, Liberty, Etc.