Re: New law concerning electronic commerce

[Neil Tiffin]

At 8:20 PM +0000 2/23/02, Jon Guiton wrote:
>  >In Germany, there is (effective from 2002-01-01) a change in the BGB
> > (Civil Code) implementing a EU directive "on certain aspects of
> > electronic commerce".
> >
> > It has certain requirements on the processing of electronic orders
> > etc.
> >
> > Furthermore, the new TDDSG (Teledienstedatenschutzgesetz - Law on
> > Privacy in Online Services) requires that the user agrees in
> > processing and storing of his personal data.
>
> This is also true in the UK under the Data Protection Act. The US
> offers its citizens far fewer rights over their data that most of the
> world. Without this this provision the application would be unusable
> in the EU.

I see this a easily accomplishable.

If someone would write a concise description of the requirement we 
will add it into our requirements.  We expect to have several 
specific country adaptions and have allowed for these in the design 
(we have not started the implementations yet).

Of course, we need to make it configurable, but not optional.

Neil