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...thus with a sense of relief mixed with anger that Valdes learned last week that Firestone, a part of Japan's Bridgestone Corp., had voluntarily recalled 6.5 million of its most widely used tires. The action hit Firestone and Ford where they live--in the automaker's best-selling models. Included in the recall are Firestone Radial ATX and ATX II tires, which are standard equipment on Ford's hot Ranger pickups. Also included are the Wilderness AT tires that Firestone makes in Decatur, Ill., for the Mercury Mountaineer and the Ford Explorer, the No. 1 suv in America. Firestone...
...years, now belongs to James V. Kimsey, co-founder of America Online and the guy who brought the new economy to Washington's doorstep by keeping AOL in his hometown. He entered the high-tech world in the early '80s when he became chief executive of Control Video Corp., an interactive-games company. Then Kimsey hired a kid from Pizza Hut named Steve Case. In 1985 he and Case started Quantum Computer Services, the company that became AOL, now a $135 billion giant that by the end of the year hopes to own Time Warner, parent of TIME. Kimsey chairs...
...monitor say their technology is worth it and offer some sobering numbers. A survey by the Computer Security Institute and the FBI found that 71% of respondents had detected unauthorized access to systems by insiders and that 79% had detected employee abuse of Internet privileges. In 1995 Chevron Corp. paid $2.2 million to four female employees who asserted that they had been sexually harassed because of jokes sent through the company network. For abuses to end, snooping proponents argue, monitoring must take place. Eaton, an A.C.L.U. member who supports notification laws, touts his product's positive and practical uses...
About 17% of FORTUNE 1,000 companies, along with half a dozen federal agencies, now have so-called monitoring software, according to International Data Corp., a research firm in Framingham, Mass. The figure is expected to jump to 80% by 2001. And about 12% of companies in an American Management Association survey said they do not notify their employees of their monitoring activities...
Investigator is the brainchild of WinWhatWhere Corp. in Kennewick, Wash. It monitors all PC activity, including programs running, and traces any files that are being copied and moved, deleted or renamed. Says creator Richard Eaton: "We're monitoring your off-line Solitaire game, things you've written in a chat room, documents you print on the company letterhead that you don't even save." Investigator retails for as little as $99 a copy and comes with an optional banner to notify anyone under surveillance of its presence. But the program will also do bizarre things to stay concealed, such...