... in voluntary e-mail communications. Smyth is important because the company even had a policy allowing for appropriate personal e-mail use. In this case, the employee had sent messages to co-workers deemed inappropriate for workplace communications. A company's interest in preventing inappropriate and unprofessional comments or even illegal activity over its e-mail system outweighs any privacy interest the employee may have in those ... being used appropriately. At the moment the basis for employee's expectations of privacy in regards to information systems is set out in the best case sc...

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... are interested in, and have the time to surf the information superhighway. The problem with this much information being accessible to this many people is that some of it is deemed inappropriate for minors. The government wants censorship, but a segment of the population does not. Legislative regulation of the Internet would be an appropriate function of the government. The Communications Decency ... have generally held that obscenity is illegal under all circumstances for all ages, while "indecency" is generally allowable to adults, but that laws protecting children from this "lesser" f...

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... this, many believe that these sites should not be allowed on the Internet. In a society where a photo of a nude, pregnant Demi Moore on the cover of a major magazine is considered acceptable to be seen by millions, it is hard to believe that some of the pictures on the Internet remain unacceptable. Censorship has now found an unwelcome home along the information ... helpful to parents who want to control where their children can and cannot go. For example, a program called CYBERsitter allows parents to block out a list of sites that have been deemed unacceptable. Opponents of Internet b...

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