The use made of nominative or personal data on the internet and their transfer for trading purposes

• Author: Garaiman Daniela
• Pages: 111-119

THE USE MADE OF NOMINATIVE OR PERSONAL DATA ON THE

INTERNET AND THEIR TRANSFER FOR TRADING PURPOSES

Ph. D. Associate Professor Daniela Gărăiman

Abstract: The paper analysis the use made of nominative or personal data on the Internet

and their transfer for trading purposes. The term spam does define electronically messages of

trading nature, which and user could receive, in his own e-mail box, in massive quantities and with

no request made for them. The cookies are local data files, passive, encrypted and personalized,

which are inserted by the sites on a computer, through the surfing browser, at the moment when

they would be accessed by the surfer. In recent years, the use of e-mail inside of companies has

hugely amplified, this mean of communication becoming unavoidable. More and more companies

place at the disposal of their employees computers with access to Internet and one or many e-mail

addresses.

Key words: spam, cookies, internet transfer.

1. The spamming. Definition and functioning

The term spam does define electronically messages of trading nature, which and user could

receive, in his own e-mail box, in massive quantities and with no request made for them. They

belong to the category of unrequested messages of whatever nature (economical, political, cultural,

religious, etc.) received, with no request, in massive quantities, by an user, in his own e-mail box. In

this category might be included the following types of messages:

- concatenated letters;

- pyramidal schemes;

- marketing made upon several levels;

- schemes with instructions about a quick welfare to be obtained through the network;

- offers made for pornographically sites;

- offers made for pirate software’s; etc.

The sending of unrequested messages might be realized as a result of previously collecting

e-mail addresses. This collection might be realized in various ways:

- due to the user's wilful registration on a certain website;

- from a list of e-mail addresses provided to the spammer by third sides;

- through automatically collection of e-mail addresses from the public space of Internet

(webs, forums, etc.).

For the forwarder, the use of spam does not involve high financial investments or a lot of

time to spend on it as he makes no effort in order to verify the addresses that he has collected by

fraud. Generally, to launch such messages are employed automatically programs for collecting the

addresses and accounts from free servers to release the messages.

There are three main modalities possibly used for sending spams:

1. to use your own e-mail servers;

2. to use servers provided by suppliers specialized in the domain of e-mail;

3. To use the e-mail servers of other Internet users, which have no protection system in this

regard, or are not sufficiently protected.

Among the collecting methods, the most controversial in regard to the protection of personal

data is the automatically collection of e-mail addresses from the public space of Internet. In the case

of the other two methods, it is known that the user has wilfully agreed to provide his own address

for registration. On the other hand, though the forwarder makes almost no investments for

spamming, it might become expensive for their recipient to cope with such e-mails. So, the recipient

might waste some time to erase them, either as simple messages from his e-mail box, or by

following the method indicated by the message itself in order to erase his own e-mail address from

the forwarder's list. The problems might not end yet, since the previously indicated erasing method