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Mechanisms For The Protection Of Online Consumers: A Comparative Analysis Of The U. S. E-Sign Act And Thai E-Transactions Act, Watchara Neitivanich
Mechanisms For The Protection Of Online Consumers: A Comparative Analysis Of The U. S. E-Sign Act And Thai E-Transactions Act, Watchara Neitivanich
Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law
Digital certificates assure online shoppers that the online merchants with whom they are considering doing business in fact exist and that they are who they claim to be. Similarly, online merchants can also be certain that persons who place orders are really who they claim to be, and the order cannot be repudiated once it has been digitally signed. Authenticated digital signatures provide stronger evidence of the source and integrity of a message than an electronic replica of a physical handwritten signature affixed on hard copy output. Digital signature technology is not an absolute answer to all problems, but it …
Unfair Competition Online And The European Electronic Commerce Directive, Marike Vermeer
Unfair Competition Online And The European Electronic Commerce Directive, Marike Vermeer
Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law
The Internet offers companies, including small businesses, the chance to operate in a worldwide market. Recognition of the Internet as a commercial communication medium has stimulated many companies to experiment with new ways of marketing through web sites and e-mail. Let us take as a sample case a small Italian olive oil company selling its olive oil through the Internet to the entire world, and let us assume that this company is called Carbonara Olive Oil SpA. This article discusses how Carbonara can use the Internet in its search for new customers, and how that use might constitute an act …