Ecommerce is business conducted via the Internet. As the Internet has become a major economic marketplace, ecommerce has become big business. Ecommerce has many aspects, each of which can have legal issues and consequences for people. Ecommerce issues relate to the technology systems that power computer-based transactions. They relate also to the providers of ecommerce systems and merchant banking services. Ecommerce law also relates to the electronic transactions themselves and issues related to identity theft and credit card usage online. Security in online transactions is a major component to ecommerce and ecommerce law. Many lawyers and law firms now specialize in counseling clients around all of these ecommerce issues.
