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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
65 Percent Of City Hall Internet Traffic Goes To "Improper" Web Pages

Terry Phillis, the city's chief information officer, told City Council this afternoon that many municipal employees are visiting Internet sites that they "have no business" looking at during work.

"I will tell you that improper use of sites probably amounts to 65 percent of our traffic in the city," Phillis said during a budget hearing for the Mayor's Information Services office. "In order for us to address that, we did not have the tool to control the content of what people were downloading off the Internet. We had to go out and buy that."

Phillis added that his agency has to balance the use of that new tool with the need for anonymity for Council members. "They deserve the anonymity of their jobs not to be scrutinized in that way," Phillis said. "We are providing that kind of anonymity for Council members."

The question left unanswered:  Is PhillyClout an improper site?

Posted by Chris Brennan @ 2:34 PM  Permalink | 1 comment
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Posted 03:45 PM, 03/11/2008
jimmymack
That is a pretty pathetic comment from a "chief information officer". Perhaps she should have lunch with any large corporation that has a real IT staff and they can explain how easy and cheap it is to acomplish what she thinks is so difficult. What he/she will save in bandwidth costs (65%) will more than pay for what he/she needs to control the environment. Almost any decent LAN administrator can fix the problem. This would be funny if it wasn't so sad. Somebody is way overpaid here.
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About Chris Brennan and Catherine Lucey
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Chris Brennan, a native Philadelphian and graduate of Temple University, joined the Daily News in 1999. He has written about SEPTA, the Philadelphia School District, the legalization of casino gambling, state government, the mayor, the governor, City Council and political campaigns.

Catherine Lucey joined the Daily News in 2002. Since then she has written about murderous drug gangs, political protesters and Harry Potter. For the past two years, she covered the 2007 mayoral election. Now that the battle is over, she has moved down to the City Hall bureau where she will report on the Nutter administration.

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