Personal information privacy protection in e-commerce
Today, the world are moving towards e-commerce application in completing their daily jobs. An e-commerce application becomes the preferred medium to complete the day's tasks. Electronic commerce or e-commerce is a potentially growing business for today's market. Basically, online shopping...
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author | Abdul Ghani, Norjihan Mohamed Sidek, Zailani |
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description | Today, the world are moving towards e-commerce application in completing their daily jobs. An e-commerce application becomes the preferred medium to complete the day's tasks. Electronic commerce or e-commerce is a potentially growing business for today's market. Basically, online shopping eliminates conventional purchase approach which is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Through cyber space, order can be placed electronically and the product will be produced and shipped with the middleman. The potential for wide-ranging surveillance of all cyber activities presents a serious threat to information privacy. It gives more bad results in personal information privacy. In any e-commerce activities, all personal information should be controlled including their disclosure in order to protect its privacy. This paper discusses how personal information is used in e-commerce application and how it should be controlled. |
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spelling | utm.eprints-130492017-10-12T05:06:18Z http://eprints.utm.my/13049/ Personal information privacy protection in e-commerce Abdul Ghani, Norjihan Mohamed Sidek, Zailani QA76 Computer software Today, the world are moving towards e-commerce application in completing their daily jobs. An e-commerce application becomes the preferred medium to complete the day's tasks. Electronic commerce or e-commerce is a potentially growing business for today's market. Basically, online shopping eliminates conventional purchase approach which is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Through cyber space, order can be placed electronically and the product will be produced and shipped with the middleman. The potential for wide-ranging surveillance of all cyber activities presents a serious threat to information privacy. It gives more bad results in personal information privacy. In any e-commerce activities, all personal information should be controlled including their disclosure in order to protect its privacy. This paper discusses how personal information is used in e-commerce application and how it should be controlled. World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) Press 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/13049/1/NorjihanAbdulGhani2009_PersonalInformationPrivacyProtectionine-commerce.pdf Abdul Ghani, Norjihan and Mohamed Sidek, Zailani (2009) Personal information privacy protection in e-commerce. WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, 6 (3). ISSN 1790-0832 |
spellingShingle | QA76 Computer software Abdul Ghani, Norjihan Mohamed Sidek, Zailani Personal information privacy protection in e-commerce |
title | Personal information privacy protection in e-commerce |
title_full | Personal information privacy protection in e-commerce |
title_fullStr | Personal information privacy protection in e-commerce |
title_full_unstemmed | Personal information privacy protection in e-commerce |
title_short | Personal information privacy protection in e-commerce |
title_sort | personal information privacy protection in e commerce |
topic | QA76 Computer software |
url | http://eprints.utm.my/13049/1/NorjihanAbdulGhani2009_PersonalInformationPrivacyProtectionine-commerce.pdf |
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