Pornography 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, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 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.
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