Keynotes
13 September 2012
The government is keen to push ahead with electronic commerce. But with companies still concerned about invasive action in the name of law enforcement, the message from industry is more evolution, less revolution. Alexis Nolan reports
When the government published its delayed Building Confidence in Electronic Commerce consultation paper on 5 March this year, it gave industry less than four weeks - until 1 April - to respond. This was no April Fools’ Day joke, but industry and legal experts protested and managed to persuade the government to extend the deadline by a month to give them more time...