Laying down the law
13 September 2012
Legislators are rushing to get electronic commerce laws on to the statute books, but the issues are complex and the interests of business and governments often conflict. David Marsh reports
Waiting for e-commerce legislation is like waiting for a bus: for ages there’s nothing, then three efforts come along at once. When I first became involved in electronic commerce law, it was called paperless trading - a most inappropriate name, given the amount of paper that information technology subsequently consumed. In those days, the computing prehistory of...