2. WHAT IS E-COMMERCE?
Stands for: Electronic Commerce
It’s basically a world of business online. But it’s
not only selling and buying. There’s more to it than
just Amazon or Ebay.
It’s circulated around everything a business can
do, but online, or “virtually.”
4. HOW E-COMMERCE IS
GROWING?
According to Heggins " Entrepreneurship is meant that
function of seeking investment and production opportunity
organizing and enterprise to undertake a new production
process, raising capital, having labor, arranging the supply of
raw materials, finding site and selecting to managers of day-to-
day operations.
5. WHAT IS ?
It’s basically a sort of money service, commonly
mistaken to be a type of “online banking system”.
7. UNRELIABLE
PayPal proved to be unreliable, as users
put their confidence and trust in this company ,
while later on, they could easily become a victim
of false transactions and money transfers.
RELIABLE
Reliability is how dependable one tends to be on an object.
For a source of e-commerce to be reliable it must:
• Provide a comfortable user interface for its users, so that they may
easily use the program or website.
• Have up-to-date data.
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8. INTEGRITY
- For the system to have integrity, it must contain
accurate data that is NOT tampered with.
BUT IS THERE A SOLUTION?
There is no full-proof solution, other than only
using trusted sites and services.
9. SECURITY ISSUE OF THEFT?
• To what extent can a Identity theft occurs when someone
service be trusted by its obtains your personal information,
users? such as your credit card data or
• Does the service take Social Security number, to commit
the appropriate fraud or other crimes.
measures to keep its
users information
protected and kept only WHAT U CAN DO;
for uses agreed by the
user themselves? Protect your information.
These are the questions to ~Erase login information (usually
rate the security of a stored in the cache of a browser),
service. change passwords occasionally
and frequently.
~Use your credit card instead of online
PRIVACY?
payment services (eg: PayPal).
~Use familiar websites with security
control. There are scams of
phising
10. AUTHENTICITY
If hackers obtain enough data
(Login information and credit
card number), they basically
provide the service enough
authenticity to log in and use
your account.
You can use online payment services and by keeping your
firewall on, it could also prevent any more future access to
your computer and the information you have stored in it.
11. DIGITAL DIVIDE
EQUALITY OF ACCESS
Not everyone has access to the internet…
So the online services and the whole working of e-commerce
is limited to those who DO have access to such resources, leaving a
large population out of their usage.
12. POLICIES
Rules made by the services to encourage appropriate use,
and discourage inappropriate use.
From Amazon.
