The principal legal and corporate issues relating to the use of IT and e-commerce in a particular business context and their implications.

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Unit 15: ICT In Business

Report: The principal legal and corporate issues

relating to the use of IT and e-commerce in a particular

business context and their implications.

Introduction to the report:

The report is to find out the legal and corporate issues relating to the usage of IT, in doing this I have chosen an organisation, to relate to the business context of these issues. The organisation that I have chosen is Postoptics Ltd, Postoptics Ltd is one of the best selling markets for eye-care products and contact lenses. It holds 90% of the market share and is one of the successful businesses throughout the UK, attracting over 1,000 visitors each day. For Postoptics Ltd I will identify issues such as:

  •  Security
  •  Data protection
  •  Copyright
  •  Health and safety
  •  Regulations on e-commercial activities
  •  EU directives
  •  Legislation on employment

Security.

Security is a vital issue in today’s business factors, and for Postoptics to be more competitive they will have to introduce a website which has been released in the year ‘97 by the Yorkshire optician him self Trevor Rowley, whose high street shop specialises in contact lenses, has vastly expanded.

This website has to be very detailed within information it gives about the company and its services making sure they are outlined very efficiently. Security for Postoptics is very important as any other organisation. For example the security purposes for Postoptics can be that they have to secure the website for any misuse hackers or any other members that could attend to hack into the website, into the more personal uses.

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The web page designers should also include who has designed the site for Postoptics, so it must make sure that the website is secure when information is passed along to the company and confidential so that information is passed to the correct people, as the website has contact addresses and many other relevant information.

Since the company has grown within the past few years and is still growing even from now on the e-commerce industry has been extremely high with extreme big names such as . Postoptics also have there own company name on there own personal website which ...

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