Word: monitors
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...Nobody at the party seemed too concerned that Lieberman would mess with Hollywood, despite his earlier criticism that the film and music industry needed to monitor themselves. Everybody has been having too much fun this week celebrity-spotting. Hey, Donna Shalala, guess who just walked...
SHANNON HENRY, 30 Known as the dotcom diva, Shannon Henry has a reputation as the leading technology writer in Washington. She joined the Washington Post two years ago as a business writer after working for the Christian Science Monitor and the American Banker. Her Post columns, more than 200 of them since September 1998, cover everyone and everything from Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen to BlackBerrys (a new model of handheld e-mail device). Other subjects have included woman investors, venture-capital funding, the political battle over high-tech immigration policy, e-commerce, wiring at the Pentagon and spreading...
Whatever position employers take on notification, those who 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...
Programs like Investigator have the law on their side, explains Amelia Boss, chairwoman of the American Bar Association's business law section. Employers are free to monitor an employee's use of their networks so long as they don't violate labor and antidiscrimination laws--by targeting union organizers, for example, or minorities. Existing constitutional, statutory and common-law doctrines have not been interpreted to cover employee monitoring. Some union contracts limit an employer's ability to monitor during downtime like lunch hours, but they typically don't bar monitoring altogether. And while federal law prohibits wiretapping and the monitoring...
...general questions raised by the complaint about protection and confidentiality of participants are questions we raise ourselves and monitor closely," Herman said...