... with computers and internet access (Streitfeld, 2000, p.A1). This self-serving corporate generosity should come to no surprise, since the hours of free labor will quickly return the investment. The common North American expression not enough hours in the day has become a true phenomenon. A recent survey of 4,113 people conducted by Stanford University found a quarter of the respondents said the time ... -time lifestyle. The use of mobile devices in public no longer elicits the stares and whispers they once did, however the behavior of the user is creating a social upheaval. The etiquette...

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... access in the office some inevitable conflicts and questions are arising over employees" and employers" rights in relation to privacy and electronic information in the workplace. With Internet access very common amongst business computer users, it is almost unheard of for a user not to utilize their network connection to conduct personal businesses. Over the course of the day a business ... have an ever more diminished expectation of workplace privacy. Except in areas where Federal and state laws have created specific protections the private employment relationship is governed largely by...

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... users: E-mail, Usenet News and the World Wide Web (WWW). E-mail is the transfer of information from one user to another in an essentially private communication that has much in common with standard postal services. Pornographic material in this medium is limited to the transfer of picture files and text files and is extremely hard to regulate without gross intrusions into ... this scenerio. An article in Time magazine recently triggered a major push to initiate governmental regulation on the Internet. Time portrayed the pornography on the Internet as something that is so common that the u...

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