Privacy in e-Commerce Software

Privacy has become a significant issue in 21st century society. Businessestechnologists legislators and individuals are struggling to protect personalprivacy as we develop our knowledge economy. Innovation is required to helpsectors such as e-commerce and e-health face this new reality and ensuretheir software and people uphold established privacy policies.The author examines privacy from historical societal and technologicalperspectives. Special attention is given to the domain of e-commerce topublic opinion and policy and to existing privacy software tools. Best practicesfor businesses and a methodology for quantitatively assessing stakeholderconcerns and creating and maintaining a set of privacy policies aredescribed. A general framework for automatically monitoring e-commerceapplications and detecting infractions of a privacy policy is implemented anddescribed. The framework is tested on a world-leading e-commerce softwareapplication.This book is especially relevant to information & privacy officers business &technical managers software architects and testers and any others wishingto extend their knowledge of privacy and technology.