Filtering
Now a Business Liability Issue
According to analysts at International Data Corp 17 percent
of all Fortune 1000 companies have installed software to monitor
employees at work and by 2001 80 percent of large companies
will be monitoring employee behaviour at work.
Taming
The Web
But inside the library, where backpack-toting students can
slip in to study and homeless people can duck the rain and
surf the Web, a battle is brewing over what people--children
and adults--can view on public, Internet-connected computers.
Filters face free-speech test
The San Francisco Public Library, a large gray edifice that
stands across from the city's sparkling City Hall, hardly
seems like ground zero for a constitutional war over Web
content.
