INTERNET PRIVACY

Internet Privacy



Internet Privacy

Introduction

The internet is constantly growing and is a developing entity that will be around for a very long time. We currently live in a society where legal and ethical limits are pushed to the max and there is an attitude if there are no rules against something then it must be alright to do. Because of this, it makes sense for us to think about the legal, ethical and regulatory issues of e-commerce. This study contains briefly discussion for the importance of these issues for e-businesses to consider.

Background

Many, if not most, online shoppers and board riders are not cognizant of the span of how much and what kind of info can be gathered about a individual, even someone who is just visiting and not buying or signing up for anything. Through the use of the "cookie" technology, a person's movement through the Web can be tracked to provide information (Goldberg, 1997). Uvocalise cookies a website assigns each one-by-one a exclusive identifier (but not the actual identity), so that the he may be identified in subsequent visits to the site. On each arrival visit, the website can call up user-specific information, which could include the consumer's preferences or interests, as indicated by documents the consumer accessed in prior visits or items the consumer clicked on while in the site (Krishnamurthy. 2009). Websites can also collect information about consumers through hidden electronic navigational software that captures information about site visits, including web pages visited and information downloaded, the types of browser used, and the referring websites' Internet addresses (Stanglin, 2010).

Most ecommerce merchants leave the mechanics to their hosting company or IT employees, but it assists to understand the basic standards. Any system has to rendezvous four requirements:

Privacy: information/data must be kept from unlawful parties.

Integrity: note must not be ...