CALCULATING ERROR RATES FOR FILTERING SOFTWARE.
It is informed that surveys in the U.S. have found that 95 percent of schools, 43 percent of public libraries and 33 percent of teenagers' parents employ filtering software to block access to pornography and other inappropriate content. Many products are also now available to filter out spam email....
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 47; no. 9; pp. 67 - 72 |
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