Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter, you will be able to:

• Understand why e-commerce raises ethical, social, and political issues.
• Understand basic concepts related to privacy and information rights, the practices of e-commerce companies that threaten privacy, and the different methods used to protect online privacy.
• Understand the various forms of intellectual property and the challenges involved in protecting it.
• Understand how the Internet is governed and why taxation of e-commerce raises governance and jurisdiction issues.
• Identify major public safety and welfare issues raised by e-commerce.