Current measures and challenges to strengthen consumer protection

Protection of consumer rights in Cyberspace

Today’s civil law faced new challenges and situations for protecting human in role of consumer and also attention to industrial life growing made new branch of law called consumer law that have some positive result in all economic, social and political aspects like increasing household income, reduce conflict and tension between buyer and seller in society and increased public participation in ...

Consumer Protection

n this article, I survey the state of the mortgage loan transfer system, the legal rules that govern it, and the widening gap between those rules and the practices in the secondary mortgage market just prior to the 2008 crisis. The review includes some empirical assessment of the extent of errors and execution problems; the damage done by “robo-signing;” the Mortgage Electronic Registration Sys...

Privacy Protection for Genomic Data: Current Techniques and Challenges

electronic contract formation and consumer protection

although electronic contract consists of offer and acceptance, its specific characteristics and the fact that parties to it state their intention in a virtual world i.e. cyber-space, and specially given consumer's need of enough protection in this environment, new rules have been included in laws concerning this kind of contract which seek to make sure that consumer has been well informed ...

Consumer Responses to the Introduction of Privacy Protection Measures: An Exploratory Research Framework

As information technologies increasingly expand the ability for organizations to store, process, and exploit personal data, privacy is at the center of discussion and controversy among multiple stakeholders including business leaders, privacy activists, and government regulators. Studies suggest that the loss of consumer confidence related to privacy fears has already hindered the growth of Bus...