D.C. Fires, Disciplines Workers For Visiting Porn Sites
Jan. 28, 2008 (Computerworld) District of Columbia officials said last week that they planned to fire as many as nine employees for using their work computers to visit an "egregious" number of pornographic Web sites.Another 31 workers were suspended or reprimanded following an investigation that began Dec. 15, after an employee filed a complaint. The city's IT unit conducted a forensic analysis on 10,000 PCs equipped with content-filtering software, and the sanctions were "based on hit counts" for pornographic sites, according to a statement issued by the mayor's office.
Vivek Kundra, the city's chief technology officer, said the filtering tools tracked Web surfing but didn't block access to sites. The city has installed another 20,000 copies of the software, from Websense Inc., to do filtering on all PCs. In addition, Kundra said users now will be redirected from porn sites to a page about the city's computer usage policy.
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