Ethical, Social and Political Issues in E-commerce

It is the moral right of individuals to be left alone, free from surveillance or interference from others.

• Privacy

• Information Privacy

• Due Process

• Copyright

The creation of digital images that characterize online individual and group behavior.

• Advertising networks

• Profiling

• Deep packet inspection

• Optimization

Any data that can be used to identify, locate, or contact an individual.

• personally identifiable interest

• personal information intensity

• pertinent identifiable instruction

• personally identifiable information

Protects original forms of expression (but not ideas) from being copied by others for a period of time.

• Patents

• Copyright

• Trademarks

• Trade secret

A technological protection that is use to detect and remove adware, keyloggers, and other malware.

• Pop-up blockers

• Anonymous remailer

• Cookie manager

• Spyware blockers