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...deemed inappropriate use of the Internet, and the New York Times axed 23 workers for sending what were considered to be obscene e-mails on company computers. "We are on the verge of creating a surveillance society in the workplace," says American Civil Liberties Union associate director Barry Steinhardt. Monitoring advocates reply that the threat of intellectual-property theft, lawsuits and just plain goofing off by employees warrants a little--or a lot of--spying...
That concerns the A.C.L.U. and others. Says Adam Clayton Powell III, vice president of the Freedom Forum, which defends the First Amendment: "The vast majority of employees are unaware of the extent to which monitoring goes on." Nonetheless, the A.C.L.U.'s Steinhardt says his offices are getting more frequent calls from spooked employees. "There's not much we can do," he says. "The technologies are developing at light speed, while the law that protects us from their misuse is developing at the speed of a tortoise." Still, the law may catch up. The California legislature is reintroducing a notification bill...
...detection would be a powerful boost to alternate-universe theories. "Confirming inflation," says Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt, "would give us a lot more confidence about some of its implications." And that includes ideas that have lived until now only in the parallel universe of fantasy...
...feeling in the first movement, the quartet quickly recovered--and by the second movement, Assez vif et bien rythme, played a sound that (like its French direction would suggest) was lively, rhythmic and lyrical. But perhaps more importantly, it was fresh. Despite the practice that first violinist Arnold Steinhardt characterizes as "hours and hours of brute labor," the quartet did on Friday what makes them renowned: they conveyed spontaneity. The result was a sound that through rehearsal did not become tenderized and beaten, but remained surprisingly raw and palatable...
...summit opened with demos of various programs that can block out unwanted Websites and E-mail or provide parents with a log of what their kid has been doing on the computer. "This has sometimes seemed more like a trade show than a summit," complained Barry Steinhardt of the A.C.L.U. But that was precisely the p.r. message that the summit's organizers--including America Online, AT&T and this magazine's parent, Time Warner--were trying to convey to the public and Congress. As a Santa's-helper questioner asked AOL chairman and CEO Steve Case during a panel discussion...