For commerce (electronic or traditional) to be effective, there must be a degree of trust between buyers and sellers. In traditional commerce, this kind of trust is based on such things as societal laws and customs, and on the intuition people tend to develop about each other during interpersonal interactions. The trustworthiness of these factors is based, to a large extent, on the geographical...

In this paper we deene several properties necessary for electronic commerce. Principal among these are the ACID contractual properties of agreement, causality, isolation, and durability. Although similar to the ACID database transactional properties, our ACID properties are derived more directly from the elements of contract law. Also included are the security properties of privacy , authentica...

The growth of telecommunications and electronic commerce has led to a growing commercial market for digital encryption technologies. Business needs encryption to protect intellectual property and to establish secure links with their partners, suppliers, and customers. Banks need it to ensure the confidentiality and authenticity of financial transactions. Law enforcement needs it to stop those u...

This paper proposes an approach to developing corporate policies for electronic commerce. The Internet and related public-private networks, such as EDI and Intranets are growing rapidly as a mediumfor commercial enterprises to transact business and develop relationships both internally and externally. While there is no body of law or commercial precedent governing such activity on the Internet,...

The work in question here aims to show how contracts are the basis for carrying out electronic commerce or E-commerce, since its rule is also based on Consumer Defense Code (CDC), Law 8.078/90. In addition, it will clarify use obtain any other asset. adhesion contract, focus of our study, a contract carried where only one parties willing assume risk thing, which generally movable good and almos...

A US law, the electronic signatures (E-Sign) in Global and National Commerce Act (signed by then President Clinton on 30 June 2000 with an effective date of 1 October 2000), grants electronic signatures legal validity equivalent to traditional handwritten counterparts. The intention of this law is to cut costs while providing more stringent security. In the emerging ecommerce arena, electronic ...

Given the current circumstances and technological advancement witnessed by world, there has been an increase in use of electronic commerce countries, merchants, consumers alike. The positive impact this type on development prosperity national international economy is due to benefits enjoyed consumers, such as speed completing commercial transactions low costs terms time effort. Studies have sho...