This document discusses several social and ethical issues in e-commerce, including web spoofing, cyber-squatting, privacy invasion, email spamming, online piracy, web tracking, and copyright infringement. It also addresses the threats posed to e-commerce servers, such as financial loss, and social issues like security, privacy, and shipping problems. The conclusion recommends increasing security and privacy protections, enacting new laws, providing a friendly online environment, being careful about sharing personal data, and regularly updating security tools.

1. Social and Ethical Issues In
E-commerce
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What is Ethics
“The basic concepts and fundamental principles
of decent human conduct.”
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3. Ethical Issues
Web Spoofing
•Fake web sites created to gather the confidential
information of people.
•www.micros0ft.com
Cyber-Squatting
Purchase and uses the existing domain name belong to
the well-known organization for the purpose of
infringing its trademarks.
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4. Privacy Invasion
• Personal details belong to consumers expose.
• Malicious programs delivered quietly via web pages
could reveal confidential information.
• Cookie cutters, Spam Butcher.
Email Spamming
• Send or broadcast unwanted advertisement or
correspondence over the Internet.
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Online Piracy
• Unauthorized copyright of electronic intellectual
property such a e-books, music or videos.
• Transfer of music and videos without the authorization
of rights holders.
Web tracking
• Do you need to know who's visiting your website, and
what they do when they get there?
• SahAgent collects and combines Internet browsing
history of users and sends it to servers.
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6. Copyright
• The copyright laws protect Intellectual property in its
various forms, and cannot be used freely.
• The distribution rights are with the copyright holder.
The Threats Posed to E-Commerce Servers
• The server can be viewed as the central repository for
your “E-Commerce Place of Business” [which consists
of the actual website which displays your products and
services, the customer database, and the payment
mechanism].
• Financial loss
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7. Social Issues
Security & privacy
• Customer will scared get cheated by the seller.
• Affect of IT department
• Loose confident of customer
Shipping issues
• It effects both sides
• very high cost
• complexity of process
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8. Conclusion
• Increase the security & privacy
• Make laws
• Provide friendly environment
• Do not expose your data so easily
• Be careful while entering your data at any site
• Update security tools regularly
• Firstly make sure to whom you are dealing is the real
party
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9. Thank You
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Amna Abdul - 0085

10. Thank You
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Amna Abdul - 0085