How,in your opinion,might consumer protection and online safety be assured?

Question

Are Internet business Web sites safe,secure and trustworthy?Online consumers I think would like to learn more about the web sites they visit,especially bedore submitting any private information, and to transact online with confidence. Consequently the needs fr Internet privacy and e-commerce are stedily growing.
So,how in your opinion,might consumer protection and online safety be assuered?
Alternatively, "It is frighteningly easy to pretend to be someone else, and although it wpuld be posssible to wprk out that a posting signed "Bill Thompson" was not really from me,it could cause problems at work or ina relationship".Has this ever happened either to u or somebody u know?

Answer 1

Internet security is a multiple-front war. There is nothing that any one person, group, or government can do to prevent fraud and privacy violations from occurring online.

Some things that I think might help reduce the spread of online fraud:

1. Phishing filters. These are already found in many popular web browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox. But phishing can occur in more places than on a web page. Take e-mail, for instance. Many people receive e-mails from people they've never met promising them large amounts of money in exchange for performing a bank transaction. This is an online version of the "Nigerian Scam". Obviously, at least some people must fall for these, as they continue, week after week, month after month. We don't need "spam filters" for these; we need an actual investigative body to find out where these e-mails are coming from, and stop them. Some people don't know what these e-mails are, but those of us that do can report them, and help protect the innocent (or ignorant).

2. Registration. It is extremely easy nowadays for someone to purchase a domain. And many organizations with the intent of defrauding people do just that. I think that every domain registration should be required to go through the "Better Business Bureau". The Bureau can investigate whether a company applying for a domain name is legitimate, or just a scam. Now, this would initially work only through the United States, but through trade agreements with other countries, we could validate websites based in other countries. Anytime a website that was not validated was attempted to be accessed, a message would appear, warning them of the risk. This would not seriously infinge on anyone's rights; Google already does this with some sites that may contain spyware.

3. Education. We often hear the sob stories of people who lose a lot of money through an online scheme. Only then do people hear of the dangers. Then they tend to promptly ignore them. I think that online education should be ongoing. I cannot, however, think of a way to implement such a thing at this time.

Answer 2

nothing is 100% safe