Document worth reading: “The History of Digital Spam”

Spam!: that’s what Lorrie Faith Cranor and Brian LaMacchia exclaimed throughout the title of a most popular call-to-action article that appeared twenty years previously on Communications of the ACM. And however, regardless of the good efforts of the evaluation group over the previous twenty years to mitigate this draw back, the sense of urgency stays unchanged, as rising utilized sciences have launched new dangerous sorts of digital spam beneath the spotlight. Furthermore, when spam is carried out with the intent to deceive or have an effect on at scale, it might alter the very fabric of society and our habits. In this textual content, I’ll briefly overview the historic previous of digital spam: starting from its quintessential incarnation, spam emails, to modern-days sorts of spam affecting the Web and social media, the survey will shut by depicting future risks associated to spam and abuse of new utilized sciences, along with Artificial Intelligence (e.g., Digital Humans). After providing a taxonomy of spam, and its hottest functions emerged all by the ultimate twenty years, I’ll overview technological and regulatory approaches proposed throughout the literature, and counsel some potential choices to kind out this ubiquitous digital epidemic transferring forward. The History of Digital Spam