Legal Issues Involve D in Ecommerce

Lessig argues that, during our progress to a truly online world, we are compelled to adjust our traditional values to ones that are more suited to the internet world. He says that the internet is already regulated by four different things: Architecture, Society, Market and Law. While it is true that these things already regulate to a certain degree, there are points in Cyberspace that fail to be regulated. Society and law are some of the biggest reasons that prevent complete regulation because of the natural contrasts of a computerized world to reality; the adjustment of societal standards and laws is not easy to do in most situations, causing contradictions and debates to be spawned by the one who try to create regulations about the internet. However, Lessig constantly argues that the internet will not be able to be sustainable

|Bob Barr. "The Cybercrime Treaty Threatens Civil Liberties." Opposing Viewpoints: Cyber Crime. Ed. Louise Gerdes. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, |

A recent article published in the Journal of Internet Law (2016) underscores the lack of consensus about both the law’s reach and the dangers it may pose international companies. In it, Hugh McCarthy highlights the fact that conflicts of law exist between nations, and that the interconnected nature of many of our technologies pose novel problems to the way companies can operate. He writes, “If one jurisdiction, such as the United Kingdom, introduces an anti-encryption law for the purpose of providing law enforcement with the capability to access all forms of electronic communications, it will be severely limited if such data is located outside the jurisdiction” (McCarthy 33).

Cheeseman, H. R. (2010). The legal environment of business and online commerce: Business ethics, e-commerce, regulatory, and international issues. (6th ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.

“Modern economies are highly dependent on information systems and networks connected to “cyberspace” a virtual world with a population of several billion and growing.”

“Many legal issues are related to e-commerce. When buyers and sellers do not know each other and cannot even see each other (they may even be in different countries), there is a chance of fraud and other crimes over the Internet. During the first few years of EC, the public witnessed many of these, ranging from the creation of a virtual bank that disappeared along with the investors’ deposits, to manipulation of stock prices on the Internet” (Turban et al., 2010).

Daniel Solove, a professor who specializes in internet privacy law, wrote this book to give his personal take on how the internet was transforming the way people connect through social mediums and how that could change in the future. An important thing to note about this book is that it was published in 2007, so some of the social and technological aspects of the book are slightly dated. Regardless of this though, this book provides an inquisitive perspective on the dynamic nature of the internet as a vessel of our society’s changing norms on privacy in the social sphere. Many of our learning points in class relate to topics discussed in this book and help to strengthen the context and significance of the underlying message.

The Legal Environment of Business and Online Commerce: Business Ethics, E Commerce, Regulatory, and International Issues, Fifth Edition, by Henry R. Cheeseman. Published by Prentice Hall.Copyright © 2007 by Pearson Education, Inc. Retrieved May 11, 2008, from

The Internet is unquestionably having a profound impact on many aspects of social, culture, economic, and legal systems throughout the world, moreover, enabling significant advances in global communication technologies, that make it more possible to contemplate the development of a more complex global information society. Such a global society offers many benefits to humankind, but incorporating regulation to enable and promote these information societies present challenges. However, such challenges create difficult questions for those making legal decisions: Do real world laws apply to virtual world problems? Can the laws adapt to regulate such activities? Are existing laws outdated and inadequate? Will new laws be required to suite Internet activities and other information technology developments?

David Johnson and David Post argue that “Cyberspace requires a system of rules quite distinct from the laws that regulate physical, geographically-defined territories” (David Johnson, 1996) Cyberspace has no defined boundaries and due to the rapid speed of data transportation over the internet, there are no physical boundaries at

The growing transaction over the internet and the increase of the criminal activities make the privacy an important topic in the e-commerce transactions. This paper aims to develop a list of privacy features in the e-commerce activities. Moreover, this paper will take a critical look at the privacy policies of four well-known websites. The comparative method will be used to develop and discuss the privacy policies in the era of the e-commerce.

Over the past decade the world has gotten much smaller due to the electronic communication the Internet has fostered. While this promotes business and international relations, problems arise regarding the protection of individuals’ personal information. Many countries around the world have developed privacy policies and laws protect an individual's information in the realm of electronic communication. Universal enforcement gets complicated because the Internet is not restricted to one country; it’s worldwide. As a result, concerns arise regarding the compatibility of various countries' privacy policies. This paper will discuss the current legislation in place for various major

Regulation of the Internet is a volatile topic. One reason comes from the very nature of the Internet.  While not entirely different from

The concern about privacy on the Internet is increasingly becoming an issue of international dispute. ?Citizens are becoming concerned that the most intimate details of their daily lives are being monitored, searched and recorded.? (www.britannica.com) 81% of Net users are concerned about threats to their privacy while online. The greatest threat to privacy comes from the construction of e-commerce alone, and not from state agents. E-commerce is structured on the copy and trade of intimate personal information and therefore, a threat to privacy on the Internet.

Electronic commerce has been there for a long time now, and it is a practice that is practiced by peoples from Germany, France, and the US on a daily basis. Since its inception around 40 years ago, e-commerce has continued to grow as innovations, technologies and a lot of business reverting to the use of the e-commerce. The aspect of buying and selling of goods in the early 1960s was sluggish with the traditional way of mailing of documents being replaced with the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), which would later pave a way to the electronic commerce. After the e-commerce, however, the practice was not more reliable as it still had many challenges (Tsolis, 2009). For instance, it was not easy for buyers to see products from the comfort of their homes and more so, the methods of accessing the information were limited.