The following is not meant to be legal advice.
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One of the speakers, Eric Goldman, a professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law began the seminar with a discussion on how people transacted online. Most people transact online with an identity different from their own. They may use a credit card that is temporary. They may use an email that is temporary. They want to protect their personal information. At the same time, they want to provide trust in the transaction. People who transact online have multiple personalities.
There are two issues that people run into in ecommerce: age and geography authentication. As to geography, historically, there was strong view that the Internet was borderless and that government was not relevant to the Internet business. Today, there is movement to restore geography on the Internet.
The Geography look of internet for online transaction would certainly be not exactly the same with the conventional geography map.
Credit card should be the most reliable one for identity and if it should be temporary, then at least the identity is already tried to be verified in the real world. It's like an anchor for the cyber person to the real life consequences. Second reliable, is Debit card, because the real verification requirement is somewhat similar.
To show my degree of agreement for this article..
If we make a certain boundary cut like what most scientist do in their research, then the "temporary" situation is an acceptable conclusion, but if we expand the boundary and analyze the credit chain and the anchor, then we may see the changes of the acceptable conclusion.
J.C. Carvill
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Posted by: J.C. Carvill | November 15, 2007 12:55 AM | Permalink to Comment