INTERNET LAW

Does your web site collect information? Does your web site post a privacy policy? If not, post one today. Here’s how: Consumers and government regulators are looking at web sites to determine how well business protects consumer privacy. The first thing they look for is a prominently posted and clearly written privacy policy. The Online […]

Snooping over the electronic medium is one of the most complicated issues generated by the growth of the internet. People still value privacy and would not like friends, employers, companies or governments to pry into their affairs. There are countries where the right of privacy is very well-developed, and email snooping is a very touchy […]

What is the Online Privacy Alliance? The Online Privacy Alliance (www.privacyalliance.org) is a cross-industry coalition of more than 80 global companies and associations committed to promoting the privacy of individuals online. The Alliance is an ad hoc organization. Its sole purpose is to work over the coming year to define privacy policy for the new […]

Nearly three-fourths of the nation’s largest corporations, from Xerox to Salomon Brothers Smith Barney, legally check up on employees by monitoring email, Internet use, computer files and even telephone conversations, according to a study by the AMA, a nonprofit organization that provides management and business training. Companies say they don’t routinely spy on employees, but […]

A digital signature or digital signature scheme is a type of asymmetric cryptography used to simulate the security properties of a handwritten signature on paper. Digital signature schemes consist of at least three algorithms: a key generation algorithm, a signature algorithm, and a verification algorithm. A signature provides authentication of a “message”. Messages may be […]

Cybersquatting is a speculative practice on the Internet involving the bad-faithpurchase of domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to existing registered trademarks. Billions of web addresses have been registered and the number is growing rapidly; the problem of cybersquatting has grown tremendously as more and more companies make the transition to e-commerce, only […]