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Privacy and data protection in E-commerce: the effectiveness of a government regulation approach in developing nations, using Nigeria as a case

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posted on 2015-04-28, 12:32 authored by Tiwalade Adelola, Ray DawsonRay Dawson, Firat BatmazFirat Batmaz
The emergence of e-commerce has brought about many benefits to a country's economy and individuals, but the openness of the Internet has given rise misuse of personal data. Several countries have enacted legislations and procedures to protect the information privacy of their citizens and corporations. However, many developing countries, such as Nigeria are yet to enact any procedures, despite the high level of identity theft and online fraud. Different approaches to data privacy and protection are found in different countries. These can be generally categorised as the self-regulation approach, as used in the United States and the government approach, as used in the United Kingdom. This paper investigates the reasons why developed countries adopt a system for data protection. The paper then focuses on the reason why the government approach may not be applicable successfully in developing country using Nigeria as a case study. This is done by identifying the issues affecting data protection in the developing country and then evaluating the United Kingdom's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) dispute resolution, enforcement and compliance monitoring processes for their applicability in Nigeria. Benchmarks developed by the Australian government for Industry-Based Customer Dispute Resolution Schemes provide a suitable mechanism for evaluation.

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  • Computer Science

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2014 9th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2014

Pages

234 - 239

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ADELOLA, T., DAWSON, R. and BATMAZ, F., 2015. Privacy and data protection in E-commerce: the effectiveness of a government regulation approach in developing nations, using Nigeria as a case. IN: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST 2014), pp. 234 - 239.

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2015

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This conference paper is closed access.

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9781908320391

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  • en

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