Babygate: Porsche CEO's hotel room bugged with baby monitor
Posted Apr 28th 2008 7:56AM by Damon Lavrinc
Filed under: Etc., Porsche, Volkswagen

It's far too early to come up with suitable jokes to make, so we'll just give you the facts. According to Germany's
Der Spiegel magazine, Police are investigating a case of corporate eavesdropping in the form of a baby monitor that was found in the hotel room of Porsche CEO, Wendelin Wiedeking. Wiedeking was in Wolfsburg, Germany visiting Volkswagen headquarters for a board meeting when a security firm found the monitor behind a sofa in the CEO's room. An investigation is underway, however, it deserves noting that the alleged spying took place in November of last year and that
Der Spiegel isn't citing any specific sources for their story.
[Source:
Forbes]
Tags: baby monitor, BabyMonitor, ceo, porsche, spy, spying, volkwagen, vw, wedelin wiedeking, WedelinWiedeking
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
FSM @ Apr 28th 2008 9:38AM
So thats where I left it....oops! Dammit I thought my 10 month old son had already learned German and had the intelligence of a shrewd businessman.
BluePariah @ Apr 28th 2008 10:09AM
I think FAR more interesting than the baby monitor is the fact that he's having his room pre-swept for bugs by a private security team.
Clearly, in this case, whoever was trying to spy on him was some cut-rate hack. Probably hired by Chris Bangle...
The seedy underbelly of industrial espionage at work.
xpolarx @ Apr 28th 2008 12:34PM
Come on, Nissan. You have to draw the line somewhere!
imoore @ Apr 28th 2008 3:33PM
I understand Porsche/VW boss Ferry Piech is currently unhappy with Dr. Wiedeking. Hint, hint.
Noe @ Apr 28th 2008 4:07PM
someone loves WHORING out their name!
Mikey @ May 2nd 2008 5:14PM
what will they think of next? porsche butter knifes?