E AND M Commerce Law (Internet Law)

E AND M Commerce Law (Internet Law)



E AND M Commerce Law (Internet Law)

Introduction

With the advent of Internet, in late 20th century, it has provided various options to the people to go global and meet people in another world which is termed as the virtual world. The development of internet has gradually shifted the life style of people from private to public. However, with the commencement of social media, with the beginning of 21st century, this private sphere has drastically transformed into public sphere and the privacy of people started shattering, as the social media developed with the passage of time. Presently, there are number of social media websites operating in the internet. There is no doubt that it has provided a lot of ease to the internet users, either professionals or common person, to interact with various people transversally across the globe and just with a single click, one can broaden its sphere or relationship with thousands of people on this planet simply using the virtual world via internet.

The Web is changing the perception of privacy as what people usually had. The Internet has revolutionized the way we communicate, making possible new and endless opportunities to interact and share information. But if, on the one hand, this revolution contributes to accelerate the development of a virtual community worldwide, while on the other side, governments and private organizations present on the Web, now have access and be able to process information about individuals in an increasingly fast and intense pace.

This means that Facebook is also increasing the risk for individuals having their data handled by third parties without their consent, or suffer invasion of privacy, which is worse, being involved in embarrassing situations, the misuse and not always ethical in their personal data.

Activities that can Jeopardize my Privacy?

While surfing the Internet, some web sites are required to provide some personal information so we can enjoy the full access of the information and benefit from the usefulness of the information or the location we are visiting. Everything starts from the moment we sign a contract with an Internet server. This server will assign us an IP, which will always be linked to the activities that we perform on the Internet. An IP alone does not indicate anything about us, but allows each activity is associated with an IP. It depends on how our Internet server ensures our privacy policy and how it protects us identifying this IP. This is the first link of several that can expose personal information on the Internet.

Privacy Issues E-mail

Whenever we send emails, beyond the certainty that we are sending information to one or more recipients, it is important to realize that this same information can be passed to others (any others for which the recipient resend the e-mail received). An email usually traverses through multiple networks, secure and insecure, monitored and non-monitored, as such, beyond the normal recipients of our e-mail is possible that ...