Compliance Issues for Websites
As you may surmise, most compliance requirements for websites are either legal requirements or industry, commerce, or trade organization guidelines. Legal requirements must be complied with, and depending on the organization, other guidelines or best practices may or may not require conformance. In the following sections, we look at the primary legal, organizational, and common best practices that an e-commerce website must, should, or could apply to comply.
General Privacy Laws
Any website that collects and keeps the personal data of a visitor, customer, or user, which is likely to be the same person, must follow one or more data protection and privacy laws. Around the world and in virtually every state in the ...
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