Forensic tool detects pornography in the workplace »
Posted By JamesMarcus 1 year, 1 month ago in NewsPornography in the workplace can pose a serious problem for employers because a significant amount of material is downloaded by employees during business hours.
The viewing of porn at work can result in lost time, creativity, productivity, and employer profitability. More importantly, it can help create a hostile work environment and can be considered sexual harassment. Naturally, corporations want to avoid the potentially serious legal consequences and protect their bottom line.
On Sunday, Orem, Utah-based forensic-software maker Paraben plans to introduce a unique piece of enterprise software developed to detect and analyze images on workplace networks and computers for suspect content. The system looks for a number of sophisticated parameters and grades images at three levels, based upon their correlation with criteria that have been programmed into the system. In other words, it finds pictures of girls in their birthday suits, and reports you to the boss.
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