[NYT]
AUG 14, 2001 Monitoring of Judiciary Computers Is Backed By NEIL A. LEWIS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 - A special committee of federal judges has recommended the wide-scale monitoring of all the computers used in the judicial branch, over the objections of judges who regard the practice as a privacy violation.
The Judicial Conference of the United States, the body that has final say on how the judicial branch administers itself, is to vote on the committee's recommendation at a Washington meeting on Sept. 11.
The vote stems from a conflict that has been simmering since this spring. At issue is whether it is legal and ethical for officials in Washington to check to see if any of the judiciary's 30,000 employees, among them nearly 900 active judges and hundreds of semiretired ones, use their computers for pornography, streaming video or music. <snip>