CAN-SPAM Act -2003 “The CAN-SPAM Act, a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have you stop emailing them, and spells out tough penalties for violations” (Fingerman, 2004). Information technology and internet introduced the term Spam; irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of recipients. But any irrelevant and unclear information distributed in bulk by any sort of media can
connectivity. However, once these costs are paid for, the cost to transmit a message to a single recipient is minuscule when compared with older media such as postal mail. Electronic messaging is cheap and fast. It is also easy to automate: computer programs can send out millions of messages via e-mail, instant message (IM), or Usenet netnews in minutes or hours at nearly no labor cost. From these economic realities, a sort of tragedy of the commons emerges. Any communications mechanism which is cheap and
bulk mail from Spam account for half of the email traffic on the Net (Webb, 2004 p.2). Spam is, according to the dictionary at gurunet.com (2003), "Unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups; junk e-mail"(Spam). Spam has very specific characteristics and today we will become more familiar with those qualities. We will examine Spam as it relates to email and, what recourses are available for Spam. Spam the term originates
The complexity of the issues and the pace with which technology changes mean that legislators have difficulty making laws that can keep in control of these changes. Technology affects all areas of society, forcing changes in a range of laws. Advances in computer technology have resulted in a new brand of cyber crimes such as computer fraud, computer hacking, email spam, pornography (especially when it relates to children) and stalking online. But it doesn’t just limit itself to computer related
information to and from all over the world in as little as a few seconds. While the advancement of technology and the internet can be great (i.e. you can talk to family and friends everywhere, run your business, play games, shop, etc.), it also has its drawbacks, like people who go online to lie and deceive (and possibly harm) other people, companies or individuals who can gain access to the personal information of a lot of people, and pornography. To look more closely at pornography, it is important
The Ethics of Spam Prevention The user base of the Internet and World Wide Web grows by millions of users each year. In recent years this has created an explosion in the number of Internet email accounts and addresses. Companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo and Netscape have made free email accounts available for the world to use. Many people have multiple email accounts on the web, in addition to those that they may have for business purposes. This increase in the number of users around
Anyone who "SPAMS" as a marketing technique should be forced to sit at a computer and experience the utter agony that is receiving SPAM email. In the past week I have received over 105 emails to my AOL account. Out of the 105 emails, only one was a "real" email from an actual person, the rest: SPAM! This problem must be happening to others, so why hasn't something been done to outlaw this annoying junk email? Who is the evil mastermind behind this so-called "SPAM"? Who is it, so I can find them
As of September 2003, there were approximately 70 million Americans or about 62 percent of the American population had at least one home computer. Another statistic is that about 55% of people also have internet on there home computers. In everyday life it is important for a person to have good ethics; this is also true about computer usage. Due to the fact that more then half of the American population owns computers, computer ethics are a growing concern in a rapidly changing society. Computer
Bush. This act protects internet users against everything from emails sent by fabricated companies to pornographic messages. Despite how useful this may appear to the everyday person, there is a catch; CAN-SPAM only works against “commercial electronic mail messages.” Congress chose to define this as “...any electronic mail message the primary purpose of which
causes destruction inside the computer. C. David Moll of Webroot Software defines it as a program with the, "ability to access a user's machine without informed consent for financial gain," (Johnson). Spyware does not have one specific function. It can be created and modified to perform the exact actions that the creator wants done. Spyware infections invade privacy, destroy computer's internal programs, and are very hard to get rid of or filter. Spyware has become more of an issue as time has progressed
mostly follows the traditional commercial code and consumer protection law with terms applied to e-commerce. In 1999, The Uniform Law Commissioners enacted the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA), and it is the first comprehensive effort to prepare state law for the electronic commerce era. The Act
certain of their ability to manage the liabilities that can emerge as a result of today's online business environment. This environment includes laws and ethical factors that are sometimes different from those in the brick and mortar setting. The online environment often forms a network of customers who can have considerable levels of communication with each other. Online businesses that break the law or violate ethical standards, therefore, can face swift and harsh reactions from customers and other
attackers used the information gathered and gained access to additional network resources which led to the $200M breach and left the cyber door wide open to future infiltration. Rest assured that there are many other cyber crime attack methods that can be employed but, this paper will specifically a... ... middle of paper ... ...com/industries/2014/03/26/banks-sue-security-firm-trustwave-over-target-breach-report-343636749/ Reuters, T. (2014) Phishing Scams Retrieved from Find Law: http://criminal
trying out new technologies when they first come out on the market. Swedish households are more likely than their Western European counterparts to own digital handheld gadgets, satellite dishes, mobile phones, and high-speed Internet connections.[1] We can assume that this translates into more time spent using the Internet and transferring information across databases, which requires Sweden to be considerably more conscious of preserving its people privacy. Sweden, historically, has held personal privacy
considered ethical and unethical. You can understand that many jobs have ethical rules or guidelines that are to always be followed but aren’t. You have some people who fine loop holes around everything. For instance, one example of an unethical situation is when a politician supports changing the law so that her investment will make money. This is something that is legal to do. Is it right, I do not think so but it is ethical for the person? Many people can argue what they feel is ethical and unethical
(through cookies, and customers filling in forms) suggests the large amount of data available to them. This data includes a large amount of information about many individuals and could hold a huge competitive advantage over other airline companies as they can refine their service offering for each individual’s preferences. The customer enters in personal information and it is at the disposal of British Airways to gain insight into the customers’ preferences. On the British Airways website, it states the
numbers, and whether the packet is in UDP or TCP format. Circuit-layer firewalls work at the transport layer of the OSI model and inspect host-session information. Circuit-layer firewalls can block packets based on the host name and other IP session information such as flags and sequencing numbers” (Grimes, 2003). Some recent firewalls even include autoban features that help monitor network activity and autoban a point of entry (often IP address or port) that alleviates known attacks or patterns of
the main means of mass communications to society. As the “Information Age” advances, technology has influenced sources of communication and information, using social networks, newspapers, television, magazines, etc. Mass media advertising technique can be very manipulating and persuading to intrigue it’s viewers, mainly controlled by major businesses such as Walt Disney Companies, news corporations, Time Warner, CBS corporations, and Viacom ("Media Influence on Society,2009). The advertisements are
Bahadur “These requirements may also govern our processes or ability to collect information, pursue investigations, monitor networks, and any number of activities that we might wish to execute as part of our appointed roles.” (pg. 90) The Privacy Act of 1974 is one of the first regulations created to help protect the collection, use and transfer of PII (personally identifiable information). Due to advances in technology privacy issues have become more urgent. With that more and more rules and regulations
trust relationship to the users” (Andert et al 2002) Trust can be defined as an integral component that involve many kinds of human interaction, which allow people to act under uncertainty with the negative risks (Artz et al 2007) 1.1 Meaning of trust One way that we can define risk, is an issues that can be avoided or mitigate. In some articles risk can be described as a situation that would lead to negative consequences. We can define trust as a binary relationship or set of compounded binary