The case began in February 2003 when Gustavo Tanus and Pablo Palazzi, decided to resort to the courts after the defendant ignored his requests that they send more e-mails with unsolicited advertising.

It is recalled that the November 11, 2003 was issued the first injunction in that case. In that decision the judge ruled that the defendants should refrain from sending emails to the players for the duration of the dispute. In addition to prohibiting the defendants sent e-mail boxes of the actors, the measure had provisions that should also refrain from “transfer or assign to third parties the email addresses or other personal information related to them (arts. 1 , 2, 5, 11 and 27 of Law 25326 on the Protection of Personal Data), pending finalization of the litigation.

In the application, accompanied Palazzi Tanus and copies of emails received, containing addresses that supposedly could ask to be removed from the distribution list, but that never worked, and those who sent them to exercise the rights recognized by the Data Protection Act. In addition to the case was an extensive expertise and demonstrated that Tanus Palazzi had received emails with advertising, had asked to be removed and had not received a reply since continued to receive offers by email.

The ruling is based on data protection law in Argentina, which specifically regulates the marketing and communication in art. 27 provides that those who receive such communications are entitled to access personal data and ask to be removed from the database (Art. 27 Law 25,326). If not, it remains concerned at the possibility of initiating an action of habeas data. The judge’s decision also states that the defendants had a database and to provide a service that allows sending emails sender address hiding violate ss. 6 inc “and” 14 and the law of habeas data as this action impossible or difficult to access the database. Finally noted that the processing of data from the different actors with a purpose contrary to the principle of purpose provided by law 25326.

On the legislative front, the Ministry of Communications has prepared a draft containing heavy fines for those who practice spam, but the project never won state legislature. At present, are pending in Congress, two bills seeking to regulate unsolicited e-mail known as spam, although it is unknown what state are the procedures.

The problem of spam, which in these years came to constitute more than half the e-mail circulating around the network, which is borne the costs of advertising on the person receiving the message (Internet users) and not those who sent. Then there is the damage it causes to the Internet service providers who have to process them and that filters to stop or programs are not 100% effective.

Payment of the registration fee to the author will bring the user a license to continue using the software. Most authors will include other materials in return for the registration fee- like printed manuals, technical support, bonus or additional software, or upgrades.

The filtering process takes place in 5 phases:

FIRST PHASE: Receiving emails
This first stage aims to assign to the spam filter QUITASPAM as receiver of the email we receive the client company. This will be in charge of the first analysis and filtering of all unwanted e-mails.

PHASE TWO: Analysis of the nature of the message
QUITASPAM using different sources of information to evaluate each particular message and assign a numerical score in the end will decide if it is considered spam, possible spam or email you want. There are two types of information sources:

Blacklists: They are records of issuers of junk e-mail more common. These databases are made analyzers Internet, which is updated continuously.

Bayesian filtering: statistical software that calculates the probability that an email is spam based on words contained in the message. It is very reliable because it records all the words in the messages and relates the amount of times they have appeared in spam emails. It also assesses and analyzes the links and images that contains the message.

THIRD PHASE: Valuation analysis
This phase consists of evaluating the results obtained by filtering, queries made to the blacklists and Bayesian filtering to make a decision.

In the event that the filter considers as unwanted mail, and automatically drop it into the database QUITASPAM with the purpose of periodic reports on the amount of spam and viruses received by domain.

Conversely, if QUITASPAM believes that mail is desired, it shall send to the email server of the company.

FOURTH STAGE: Sending mail to the customer desired
Sending messages to the desired server’s email client.

FIFTH PHASE: Receiving emails of the end user.
Finally, employees will receive only the mail you want.

The consequences of this phenomenon are known:
? Reduces worker productivity.
? Consume capacity system.
? Increases the security risks.
? It damages the quality of service.

The National Institute of Communication Technologies conducted between January 1 and March 11, 2008, a study on the status, nature and economic and social impact of unwanted email spam.

One of the most revealing findings was that counted the amount of spam in Spain, according to the study: 84.6% of emails circulating in Spain over the Internet are spam.

Other findings of interest:

The volume analyzed by the network of sensors INTECO clearly indicates that United States, China, Russia and South Korea sent more than 50% of unwanted messages you receive in Spain.

Spain is placed in the eleventh place in the global generation of spam since 2006, behind countries like United States, China, South Korea and France. While these are progressively reduced emission levels, in Spain the figure has doubled production of spam in less than a year.

The time that each worker devotes to remove spam from your mailbox, it is between two and four minutes per day on average. Just for the loss of time involved in removing spam, in 2007 the economic cost associated with each worker who uses a daily email at work is estimated at ? 179.

Spam is not just locked into the barriers of the Internet, but attempts to reach the mobile, which currently suffers through SMS and MMS, Telephony and Voice over IP (VoIP).

The initial problem:
The company has several branches in the provinces of Alicante, Cadiz and Ciudad Real. Having three different domains and make public a large number of emails makes the business more vulnerable to attacks from viruses and spam.

The solution QuitaSpam:
In a completely transparent to the organization and recruiting a single service for all delegations and domains of the company, launched the e-mail filtering on the part of the solution Oqotech: Quitaspam.

Benefits they currently enjoy:

• The benefits that this solution now travel to Spain:

• Protection against viruses and spam from email.

• Economic savings, as security is performed centrally by a single tool for all delegations and domains in the enterprise.

• External management is responsible for maintaining and configuring the tool, so the company does not have to spend resources managing specialized filtration.

• Periodic reports of the filter performance: amount of spam and viruses found, the percentage of unwanted emails, email attacks, and so on.

E-bill, first presented in January and already approved by the state Senate, was approved overwhelmingly Tuesday by the House of Representatives from Ohio, said a lawmaker from the adviser Kathleen Walcher, who co-sponsored the project.

Taft was not immediately available for comment. An industry source said that the governor is expected to sign the Ohio project bipartite ’spam’.

If it becomes law, would declare illegal deceptive Internet advertisements and prohibit false or creating false accounts to send spam, junk email that fills inboxes of e-mails of Internet resources and replenishment of Internet service providers.

The measure also would allow the state attorney general’s criminal and civil penalties against ’spammers’.

The worst offenders could face a minimum of six months in prison and fines of $ 25,000 per violation, or two to eight U.S. dollars per email. Your computer might be confiscated, and Internet providers may submit claims for damages.

Mail spam is a big problem. Cause economic problems and costs to people over a long period of time, “he said on Friday Daniel Holstein, a researcher affiliated with the Greens.

“We hope (the fines) to make people think & nbspdos times before mandar spam,” he told Reuters. The law will be voted by Parliament during the second week of March.

About 80 percent of e-mails sent worldwide are spam and researchers have discovered that sending spam can cost billions of euros. Companies have to buy computers with greater capacity to cope with the influx of e-mails and workers waste time checking all these emails, Holstein said.

The law will prevent the ’spammers’ hide your name or e-mail comes.

Since July last year, in Germany it is illegal to send spam, but the coalition government in hopes that the new legislation will help provide more effective protection.

President of the DPA, Jose Luis Pinar, said today after appearing before the Constitutional Committee of Congress that “there are already initiated in certain” sanctions against issuers’ spam ‘, but noted that “are still in the process of instruction, “since the agency took these skills” recently ” .

Pinar reported difficulties in pursuing this practice due to the “border” of the Internet. However, emphasized the importance of continuing to work and setting lines of collaboration with national authorities throughout the world, promoting the exchange of information, despite the fact that “it is sometimes impossible.”

In this regard, he referred to the importance of the meeting held last October 11 in London under the auspices of the OECD, took part responsible for the implementation and enforcement of the rules’ spam ‘from 15 different countries of the five continents and industries involved.

The result of this meeting was the adoption of an agreement that 19 authorities initiated a joint Action Plan (London Action Plan on Spam), consisting in a very direct action (appointment of contact points, regular communications between countries, exchange of experiences and problems, etc..) fluid to establish channels of communication and mutual cooperation in combating this problem.

Pinar also explained that Canadian companies and institutions have already taken the importance of data protection and undertook to “deploy a culture of data protection for the citizens know their rights.” In addition, reviewed the major offenses to which it is facing the APD, inscribed inside the shortcomings reported, both in personnel and funding, as their resources come from its sanctions.

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Regarding staff, the APD is currently negotiated “further growth” of staff. The agency currently has twelve inspectors, working in teams of two throughout the country. “There are a few ways to all complaints received. A person has seventy files at the same time, some great technical complexity,” complained Pinar to the Members of the committee.

Moreover, in the last year have increased by thirty percent the number of open files for Data Protection and so far in 2009, the figure reaches 900. Furthermore, over ninety percent of infringement proceedings which are initiated by citizen complaints.

Pinar highlighted the responsible claims against financial institutions file (delinquency), advertising (spam) and telecommunications (pre with other operators) and on the treatment of health data, which are specially protected by law.

Clinical history

The latter noted that “failure to do enough to improve the clinical care of,” although he admitted that “it is not easy to solve, but you must be solved.” It also revealed “significant deficiencies” in hospitals, which have a “poor implementation of safety measures.”

Finally, regarding the regulatory development of the Organic Law on Data Protection (LOPD), said it is “absolutely necessary” and that “it is already working on it, to have a draft before the end of the year, and power approved during 2009. “

The favorite targets of extortionists – many of whom are believed to come from Eastern Europe – have been casinos and shops, but one prominent recent victim was the Port of Houston.

After all, is an old type of offense, but using the latest technologies, “said a spokesman for the Technological Crime Unit of the United Kingdom.

British agents to combat cyber-crime have asked companies to report on the attacks against their Internet businesses after a recent spate of incidents with the characteristic of extortion.

Police detected an increase in DoS attacks against businesses’ online ‘.

In some cases, attacks that can disable a corporate network with a barrage of bogus data requests, are followed by a request for money. An effective attack can leave a page out of business’ web ‘for extended periods.

Casino ‘online’ seems to be a favorite target because they are dynamic and many businesses are located in the Caribbean, where researchers are not well equipped to address such attacks.

Police said that given the lack of information of companies victims of the attacks, they are not sure if they are isolated incidents or the beginning of a new wave of crime.

Whatever the reason, denial of service attacks are increasing, coinciding with the proliferation of broadband deployment in homes. Security experts believe that the growing number of insecure home PCs may have an important responsibility.

Federal Trade Commission (FTC, for its initials in English) said the operation, which manages up to 20 web pages, not your email properly labeled as “sexually explicit” and violated several other aspects of the anti-spam legislation, which is a year of life.

Six men and five businesses have seen their assets temporarily frozen by a federal court in Las Vegas and can not send any ’spam’ deceptive while the case continues to be, the FTC said.

Only one of the men accused sent the email but the others are also considered responsible because he hired, said Eileen Harrington, associate director of the Division of Marketing Practices of the FTC.

“It’s not just the people who pressed the button to send ’spam’ which may be responsible,” Harrington said in a press conference.

Unwanted pornography and other forms of spam accounts for about 85 percent of all emails, up from 55 percent when the existing anti-spam legislation came into force a year ago.

The defendants included explicit content in your messages, do not adequately qualified, not labeled as advertising and did not give the consumer a way to stop receiving all these points that violate the law, according to Harrington.

The accused may be asked to renounce the money obtained from the operation and prevent more of this mandar mail. The FTC has no authority to send to jail or impose fines for a first offense.