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One-Third
of U.S. Online Workforce under Internet/E-Mail Surveillance Dealing
with Deviants on Your Network "I
have been using iPrism and
am very pleased with its performance. iPrism has proven very
effective in our corporate environment at blocking/monitoring
internet content, as well as providing reporting to the department
and plant managers for which they use as a tool in the management
of their staff." Supreme
Court Upholds Library Net filters Enterprise
Networks / Applications The
product, which SAS announced on Jan. 21 under the name Text Miner,
can sift through e-mail and text files to "identify trends and
create more actionable results for management." What is really
interesting is that it heralds a new age in employee monitoring.
To date, e-mail monitoring has been, in the main, about blocking
dirty words and verboten URLs. There have been attempts at detecting "adult" pictures
in e-mail, aka "fleshspotting," but I've heard of nothing that
is really worth using. Civil
Liberties in Cyberspace Like a growing number of businesses, Steve Jackson Games operated an electronic bulletin board to facilitate contact between players of its games and their authors... Law enforcement officers apparently became suspicious when a Steve Jackson Games employee -- on his own time and on a BBS he ran from his house -- made an innocuous comment about a public domain protocol for transferring computer files called Kermit. In addition, officials claimed that at one time the employee had had on an electronic bulletin board a copy of Phrack, a widely disseminated electronic publication, that included information they believed to have been stolen from a BellSouth computer. The law enforcement officials interpreted these facts as unusual enough to justify not only a search and seizure at the employee's residence but also the search of Steve Jackson Games and the seizure of enough equipment to disrupt the business seriously. Among the items confiscated were all the hard copies and electronically stored copies of the manuscript of a rule book for a role-playing game called GURPS Cyberpunk, in which inhabitants of so-called cyberspace invade corporate and government computer systems and steal sensitive data. Law enforcement agents regarded the book, in the words of one, as "a handbook for computer crime."... [Full Article] Song-Swapping
FAQ The
RIAA doesn't know who in the household is sharing songs so it
is suing the Internet account holder. The RIAA says it doesn't
care who it sues, it just wants the song-sharing stopped... Facing
the Consequences The result of this infraction was that my rank was reduced by one grade, my salary was reduced for three months, and I am on probation for three years. Further, I am now recognized as a ‘trouble’ employee, I must remain with my current manager until I retire, there will be no chance for advancement because of the stigma of being a problem employee and because other managers don’t want to take the risk of hiring such an employee, and my manager now micromanages me. Prior to my infraction, my record was clean. It is like I have leprosy...[Full Article] Addamark
Builds a Log Watcher |
Inexpensive
Technology Drives Employee Monitoring: A new Privacy Foundation
study finds that 14 million employees in the U.S. have
their Internet or e-mail use under continuous surveillance
at work. Worldwide, the number is estimated at 27 million,
about one-quarter of the global online workforce... [
"The
patterns in people's language change when they are uncertain or lying.
We can compare basic patterns in words and grammatical structures vs.
benchmarks to detect likely lies." -- Peter Dorrington, business solutions
manager at SAS, quoted in the London Financial Times, Jan. 20.... 
On
March 1, 1990, the U.S. Secret Service raided the offices of Steve Jackson,
an entrepreneurial publisher in Austin, TX. Carrying a search warrant,
the authorities confiscated computer hardware and software, the drafts
of his about-to-be-released book and many business records of his company,
Steve Jackson Games. They also seized the electronic bulletin-board
system used by the publisher to communicate with customers and writers,
thereby seizing all the private electronic mail on the system. The
Secret Service held some of the equipment and material for months, refusing
to discuss their reasons for the raid. The publisher was forced
to reconstruct his book from old manuscripts, to delay filling orders
for it and to lay off half his staff. When the warrant application
was finally unsealed months later, it confirmed that the publisher was
never suspected of any crime...
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