Privacy and Security Issues and Shopping Online
Adequate attention to the issues of Privacy and IT security is absolutely necessary for survival and healthy conduct of online business. However, these policies are of complex nature and require a high level of focus in order to provide best practice of conduct that consists of legal and technical expertise.
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Amazon.com online shopping website contains sufficient information about privacy and security for customer or seller to get familiar with. The information reveals that a sufficient attention was given to these business areas protecting against any disputes that may arise during online business conduct. Amazon.com advises customers and sellers that their policies and practices will never change to make them less protective and that collected customer information will not be collected without the consent of affected customers. (Amazon.com) In return, customers and suppliers must accept Amazon.com conditions of use when shopping at Amazon.com.
Concerning the e-commerce in general – a further research on the development of technologies and policies for information security for privacy protection and electronic commerce is needed. Preliminary evidence suggests that further technological advance of the Internet will be vulnerable by lack of adequate attention to the issues of IT security and privacy security.
