Address harvesting is an automated system used to collect email addresses in bulk with the intent of sending Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE), often referred to as spam. Address harvesting is performed without the knowledge or consent of the address owners.
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to computer-based systems capable of performing functions that typically require human intelligence, such as recognizing patterns, adapting from experience, or making decisions.
Commerce refers generally to the activity of exchanging products, goods, and services for financial gain. The word commerce usually is used to mean economic activity broadly on a national or other large scale. Commerce can be used in many contexts but is most commonly used by governments in their constitutions and laws to define the authority of the government to regulate commerce activity.
The Commerce Clause is Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, which gives Congress the power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, among states, and with the Indian tribes.”
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Communications law is primarily related to the regulation of computer telecommunications, cable, internet, as well as radio and television broadcasting. The federal government has largely governed broadcasting because by its nature, broadcasting transcends state boundaries.
Computer and internet fraud entails the criminal use of a computer or the Internet and can take many different forms. While some argue that “hacking” is a neutral term (see United States v.
A dictionary attack is a type of password-guessing technique that can be used to obtain unauthorized access to online accounts, databases, or computer systems. These attacks use a “dictionary,” or a list of likely passwords or other authentication information, to make repeated attempts to gain unauthorized access. The dictionary may consist of common words, phrases, numbers, previously compromised passwords, or information obtained from prior data breaches.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent executive agency tasked with regulating the telecommunications sector, including radio, television, wire communications, satellite, cable, and the internet. The power of the FCC is laid out in Title 47 of the United States Code.
A geofence is a virtual barrier that reacts whenever a device crosses a geographic boundary. Geofences are sometimes used by law enforcement to identify people who may have been in a particular area at the time of a crime based on their location data.
