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ABA Withdraws Consideration of UCITA

Posted by michael on from the happy-happy-joy-joy dept.

Cognito writes "AFFECT, Americans for Fair Electronic Commerce Transactions, is reporting that the American Bar Association has withdrawn its consideration for endorsing a resolution to approve UCITA, the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act. This is a good thing. It's interesting to note that a recently filed law suit would have been prohibited if UCITA were endorsed and adopted as a common law."

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  1. Current Electronic Commerce is Shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since companies are using ".com" and not their country codes, you may have no recourse if the website you're buying from is in fact a front-end for an automated credit-card stealing system located in some remote country where the law is just a guideline. And no, even if the website sports known companies logos and gives an address in the U.S., it could all be fake.

    You CAN'T shop online until companies start using country codes and DNS is secured.