Question

examine the legal protections for e-commerce. From the readings or from your own research, choose three U.S. laws that regulate the use of the internet for commercial purposes. You can choose laws that protect the consumer, the provider, or both. also include the issue of jurisdiction when conducting e-commerce transactions.

Answer 1

Electronic commerce, generally known as e-commerce or e-commerce, refers to purchasing and selling goods or services through electronic means based on the Internet. E-Commerce uses a mix of Internet technology, mobile trading, transfers of electronic money, escrowing facilities, electronic data interchange, supply chain management, inventory management systems, internet marketing, data collection systems, and many other technologies and creative business processes. Many e-commerce transactions, if not all, use the Internet for at least one stage of the transaction.

Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA)

The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) "was planned to forestall 'cybersquatting,' an articulation that has come to mean the dishonesty, harsh enlistment and utilization of the unmistakable trademarks of others as Internet area names, with the aim to benefit from the generosity related with those trademarks.The ACPA renders one at risk to the proprietor of a trademark who, with "a dishonesty expectation to benefit from that mark," "registers, deals in or utilizes a space name" that is either indistinguishable or confusingly like a "particular" mark or is indistinguishable, confusingly comparative or dilutive of a "popular imprint."

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

The primary aim of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) law is to give parents power over what information their children gather online and how that information can be used.

Export.gov - E-Commerce Toolbox

The global scope of the Internet has made possible a cost-effective medium for overseas marketing of goods and services. Companies setting up a corporate website that advertises their goods and services, offers an automated system for safe and secure online purchases, features order monitoring and lists the technological requirements of the items that can easily apply automated commerce to international marketing.