Know-How Exchange : Student Questions

Well, what kind of research have you done so far? What do you think?

Please show me you have tried to answer the question on your own and I will be more than happy to help you.

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I have to take care of a few things, but want to let you know I am coming back to help you.

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As you mentioned, there are not a lot of laws which govern the Internet. Part of this is due to the way the Internet was founded as a group aimed towards a goal of free flowing information and part of it because the Internet is super-national, so no one set of laws governs it.

There are some laws in certain countries aimed at security and confidentiality. For example, most sites in the United States are required to have a privacy policy posted in an easy to find place on their web site. And in cases like commerce, even though it takes place on the Internet, it still is governed by a country's commerce laws.

Other than that, much of the reason that companies follow a set of standards in these areas is because of the ease of information flow on the Internet (particularly negative info, so if they do something against the norms, the word of them being bad gets out very quickly).

I found a good report on the steps a company can take to maintain credibility with the viewers of their site. https://www.webcredibility.org/guidelines/index.html

Well, It looks like Peter is pointing you in the right direction. I'll turn it over to him.

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