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Tiger Woods may not be bringing a lot of money into the coffers of Buick, Gatorade or Gillette these days, but his highly publicized cheating scandal has helped popularize computer monitoring software such as the highly rated WebWatcher from Awareness Technologies. But Tiger Woods isn’t the only reason computer monitoring software sales have surged. Here are a couple other incidents that prompted employers, parents, spouses, boyfriends and girlfriends to download WebWatcher or some other computer monitoring software:

Spying on lover's e-mail? Monitoring may be illegal Austin police have charged two recently with activity. By Tony Plohetski AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Shawn Macleod wanted to know where his estranged wife was going on the Internet and what she was writing in e-mails, investigators said, so he secretly installed a program called SpyRecon on her computer that sent him electronic logs with the sites she had visited and messages she had sent. His spying resulted in a four-year prison sentence. Software programs created to monitor computer activity have grown in popularity in recent years as parents have...

Al Gore once assured the American public that an Orwellian government would not monitor us. Even today, Al Gore will not claim that he planned to enable the government to tap every phone in the United States if it so desired. Al Gore wanted to be Big Brother. In 1993, Vice President Al Gore spearheaded a project called "Clipper" which was designed to monitor America. Gore's leadership in this scheme to allow the Feds to have easy access to bug American telephones is all too well documented for him to deny. "We also want to assure users of key escrow...