Are my kids safe?
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As the number of Internet users under the age of eighteen surpasses four million, growing numbers of parents are becoming concerned about protecting children from access to dangerous or improper materials. In turn, an increasing number of resources and software packages are available to these parents. The Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) is a standard that enables special filtering instructions to be built into software code. SafeSurf Software and other third-party vendors offer PICS-compliant rating services and products that enable certain materials and subjects to be blocked out. Filtering software such as Solid Oak Software's Cybersitter and Microsystems Software's Cyber Patrol enables parents to effectively ban certain subjects from youthful Web browsers. One problem with this approach is that key word and topic-oriented lists can effectively ban educational materials along with undesirable sources. Online vendors such as America Online are now offering a Kids Only Channel for young customers.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1996
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Dirty work: Web screeners block smut
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Microsystems Software's Cyber-Patrol is child-protection software that is used by both CompuServe and America Online to ensure that children do not have access to inappropriate material. The company has recently released a corporate version of the software called Cyber-Patrol Corporate that employers can use to prohibit employees from spending time at sites that are not business related, such as travel, sports, entertainment or on-line sex sites. Microsystems employs about a dozen individuals, most of whom are parents, teachers or moonlighting professionals, as Internet reviewers. After a site is reviewed at Microsystems it is placed in one of three databases, 'CyberNOT' contains offensive pages, 'CyberYES' contains sites appropriate for children to view and 'Sports/Entertainment' contains 10,000 sites employers would not like their employees to have access to.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1997
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Employers sabotage office computer games
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Many companies and some state government offices are prohibiting employees from playing computer games on company time. Both private and public MIS officials report that such games are often loaded by employees on their office PCs and expose the employer to copyright-infringement lawsuits, computer viruses and network overload problems. Employers are also concerned with the loss of worker productivity that stems from the computer games. New Jersey's Dept of Environmental Protection is just one government body to have enacted an all-out ban on computer games in the office. Research conducted by the CIMI Corp indicates that 11% of large corporations have instituted a policy of erasing game programs from corporate networks and 4% have reprimanded or terminated employees found playing computer games during office hours.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1995
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