Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Don't play2 with me...

Woman CEO files RM20mil suit against telco

KOTA BARU (Aug 29, 2010): A woman chief executive officer (CEO) today filed a RM20 million suit against a telecommunications company (telco) for allegedly revealing contents of her SMS exchanges and recordings of her teleconversations with other individuals to third parties.

Noor Haslina Abdullah, 39, who is the CEO of a private college in Kuala Terengganu, filed the suit against the company, which is heaquartered in Kuala Lumpur and has a Kota Baru branch, at the High Court registry here at 2pm through the law firm of Messrs Rafizi Zubairi & Co.

In her statement of claim, she said she suffered hurt of feelings, trauma and mental stress as a result of the episode.

She alleged that on March 11, when she arrived at her office, she received a package which contained nine A-4 sized pages with information about her SMS exhanges and a "Kingston Data Traveller 4GB" pen drive that had recordings of her telephone conversations.

She added that she lodged a police report on the matter on March 14 and sought relief from the telco, but was ignored.

She is seeking damages totalling RM20 million and other relief deemed fit by the court. -- Bernama

What the hack man! where is our privacy; It could be a "pay-&-get" what you want case...

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