BU231 Chapter Notes - Chapter 31: Standard Form Contract, Cybersquatting, Personal Information Protection And Electronic Documents Act
Document Summary
Contract law: ecommerce is about making contracts (just like selling anything else, usually a standard form contract is used that must be accepted before something is bought that, online forms have legal efect and are enforceable. Your online signature counts as a legal signature: the legislaion that applies is the one where the consumer is located i. e. you are a resident of ontario or the ofer and acceptance occurred in ontario. Torts then ontario legislaion would apply: most common one is defamaion, isps can be court ordered to trace who wrote a defamatory comment. Pipeda (personal informaion protecion and electronic documents act: restricts the use of private informaion (i. e. selling mass data about users to marketers) Casl (canadian ani-spam legislaion: can"t spam commercial emails to those who don"t give consent. It"s hard to determine which jurisdicion to use because of the global market using the internet.
