How do Legislations, Regulations, Policies and Cases Influence the Security in E-Commerce?

Abstract

Omar Abdel Jaber, Johar MGM, Sultan Al-masaeed

As e-business becomes part of a majority of people's everyday life that appears to be risk-adverse, protection becomes crucially important (E-Commerce & Growth Study 2003). Internet security problems take several forms: spam, malware, site squatting, piracy, copyright infringement, denial of service, unauthorized intrusion into corporate or personal computers and networks (theft or misuse of the information stored therein), infringements of privacy, abuse and harassment. The following topics will be discussed for the purpose of this study: e-commerce laws, computer crimes, e-privacy and authentication & encryption. It is proposed that these three (3) principles are examined in order to tackle security and safety in e-commerce. These principles are derived from the review of all the legislations, cases, guidelines, policies and regulations in this paper. All these principles are complementary to each other. Self-regulation, Ethics, Enforcement. Security and safety will remain the most vital issues in electronic commerce that will continue to be discussed, examined and addressed. Actions will be continue to be taken by the society to create new laws, technology, methods and processes to increase security and safety in the cyberspace as e-commerce technologies grow. One must not be deterred from electronic commerce just because of these issues. There will always be a downside for everything including electronic commerce. Business growth from this new method of doing business is very lucrative to be abandoned.