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June 26, 2008, 11:10 AM ET
Spying on Faculty and Staff Computer Use
Some pornographic downloads by North Carolina Central University staff members have prompted the university to install monitoring software on faculty and staff members’ computers. It’s also prompted concern from the university professors that the institution is going to be spying upon them.
The Herald-Sun newspaper of Durham reported today that the North Carolina chapter of the American Association of University Professors has voiced worries, saying that faculty members doing research may visit Web sites that seem suspicious but are part of their work.
Or sometimes people just make mistakes. The classic one, for years, was when people trying to get to “whitehouse.gov” typed “whitehouse.com” instead. The latter was a porn site until 2004, when it went out of business.
Mistakes and legitimate explorations are easily explained. Plus, IT staffs have little time and little inclination to go snooping in other people’s business. So worries may be overblown.—Josh Fischman
Categories: Security, Leadership
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