Titre :	Online protection - A survey of consumer, industry and regulatory mechanisms and systems
Type de document :	document électronique
Auteurs :	OFCOM - Office of communication (UK) , Editeur scientifique
Editeur :	London [Grande-Bretagne] : OFCOM (Office of communication)
Année de publication :	2006
Importance :	94 p.
Note générale :	Proposé au téléchargement sur : http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/telecoms-research/report.pdf
Langues :	Anglais
Catégories :	MEDIAS:AUDIOVISUEL:NUMERIQUE
Tags :	internet  régulation  Grande-Bretagne  consommateur
Index. décimale :	004.678 Internet
Résumé :	"Over the past decade, the Internet has grown to become a central part of the cultural and economic life of many people around the world. (..) The regulation of internet services is the subject of significant international debate. Consumers expect to be protected from fraud of other forms of harm; and their children protected from inappropriate content. (...) As the UK communications regulator, Ofcom has oversight of the wholesale and retail markets for internet connectivity. We also have a statutory duty to promote media literacy, a role in encouraging audiences to connect the internet, and in helping them to learn how to manage the risks to which they are exposed when online. We therefore have a clear interest in the protection of consumers from harm when they use the internet. Furthermore, the current draft of the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive proposed an extension of a broadcast-like regulatory framework to audiovisual content delivered in other ways - and might therefore require statutory content regulation to be applied to a broad range of internet services. This document is a research report intended to inform the debate about the most appropriate ways to address the consumer protection challenges raised by the internet, such as those identified above. It is a broad survey of the key internet consumer protection issues and the national and international approaches taken to tackling those issues across the world. It does not include policy recommendations, though we do comment on the varying success of some of the initiatives adopted. (...) We hope that interested parties accross industry, government and consumers will respond to the publication of this report with a continuing and open debate about the challenge to which the internet gives rise. In addressing them, the protection of consumers' security and safety will need to be balanced with the preservation of the internet's potential as a platform for innovation." (Foreword : by David Currie & Stephen A. Carter)
Note de contenu :	CONTENTS SECTION Foreword 1.- Executive summary 2.- Introduction 3.- The structure of the internet 4.- Protection of personal data 5.- E-commerce 6.- Content and contact 7.- Malicious computer activity ANNEX Glossary of terms
En ligne :	http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/telecoms-research/report.pdf

Online protection - A survey of consumer, industry and regulatory mechanisms and systems [document électronique] / OFCOM - Office of communication (UK) , Editeur scientifique . - London (Riverside House, 2a Southwark Bridge Road, SE1 9HA, Grande-Bretagne) : OFCOM (Office of communication), 2006 . - 94 p.
Proposé au téléchargement sur :
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/telecoms-research/report.pdf
Langues : Anglais

Catégories :	MEDIAS:AUDIOVISUEL:NUMERIQUE
Tags :	internet  régulation  Grande-Bretagne  consommateur
Index. décimale :	004.678 Internet
Résumé :	"Over the past decade, the Internet has grown to become a central part of the cultural and economic life of many people around the world. (..) The regulation of internet services is the subject of significant international debate. Consumers expect to be protected from fraud of other forms of harm; and their children protected from inappropriate content. (...) As the UK communications regulator, Ofcom has oversight of the wholesale and retail markets for internet connectivity. We also have a statutory duty to promote media literacy, a role in encouraging audiences to connect the internet, and in helping them to learn how to manage the risks to which they are exposed when online. We therefore have a clear interest in the protection of consumers from harm when they use the internet. Furthermore, the current draft of the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive proposed an extension of a broadcast-like regulatory framework to audiovisual content delivered in other ways - and might therefore require statutory content regulation to be applied to a broad range of internet services. This document is a research report intended to inform the debate about the most appropriate ways to address the consumer protection challenges raised by the internet, such as those identified above. It is a broad survey of the key internet consumer protection issues and the national and international approaches taken to tackling those issues across the world. It does not include policy recommendations, though we do comment on the varying success of some of the initiatives adopted. (...) We hope that interested parties accross industry, government and consumers will respond to the publication of this report with a continuing and open debate about the challenge to which the internet gives rise. In addressing them, the protection of consumers' security and safety will need to be balanced with the preservation of the internet's potential as a platform for innovation." (Foreword : by David Currie & Stephen A. Carter)
Note de contenu :	CONTENTS SECTION Foreword 1.- Executive summary 2.- Introduction 3.- The structure of the internet 4.- Protection of personal data 5.- E-commerce 6.- Content and contact 7.- Malicious computer activity ANNEX Glossary of terms
En ligne :	http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/telecoms-research/report.pdf