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Internet Activist Seeks Utah Schools' Filter LogsMichael Sims, who cofounded the Censorware Project watchdog group in late 1997, is appealing the Utah Education Network's rejection of his freedom-of-information request to see the Internet logs of sites Utah public-school students try to access. The UEN provides computer services for every connected school district, and uses Secure Computing's Smartfilter blocking software on all student workstations. One reason UEN officials gave for not complying was that students' privacy would be compromised by sharing the logs. But in a June 13 story, the Salt Lake Tribune quoted from a March UEN report asserting, "It has been our policy to give access to those logs to any teacher or administrator that requests access." "I want to perform an analysis of the log files, with special attention given to sites banned by this software program that a teacher standing in the same room would have no objection to," Sims explained. Posted June 22, 1998. |
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