Bad web habits may not cause cancer, but they sure can get you into trouble according to a recent batch of news stories. Some of the stories are alerts and some just confirm that there are folks that don’t think about what they are doing.

ABC News in Web Surfing at Work? It Could Cost You Money reports that most businesses do monitor employees’ use of the web. Some are imposing fines of up to one thousand bucks for inappropriate use of the web and others are just terminating access.

GCN in On the rise: monitoring employees’ Web habits reports that more than 20 federal, state and local agencies use software to monitor how employees use the net at work.

The Scotsman in Caught up in a web of deceit reports on a situation where some Scots are obvious candidates for the Darwin Awards for stupidity. Apparently, there is a new Scottish website setup to facilitate cheating on a spouse. Visitors are spending big money on the site and posting pictures and descriptions of themselves on the site in hopes of finding fun behind their spouses’ backs. Now what could be dumber than putting a picture of yourself on the web or a description of yourself and then believe your spouse isn’t going to find out sooner or later.

Australia’s The Age in Study probes web habits of office slackers reports that “cyberslacking could be eating up as much as a quarter of the time employees spend online . . .”

New Zeland’s TVNZ In Cyber-slacking days may be over reports that employers are cracking down on cyber-slackers that are costing them millions in lost productivity.