E-Commerce Times Talkback

Re: European E-Commerce Feeling Pinch from ID Theft
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. 2005-06-29 12:12:07

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European consumers are being driven away from online banking and commerce by fears that their identities will be stolen and their financial resources raided by information highwaymen. Survey results released yesterday by Entrust, a publicly traded digital identity security firm located in Addison, Texas, showed 13 percent of consumers in the United Kingdom and Germany have decreased or stopped online banking activities in the past 12 months because of concerns over identity theft.

Re: European E-Commerce Feeling Pinch from ID Theft
Posted by: Rob Stocks 2005-06-29 12:24:04 In reply to: John P. Mello Jr.

Developers and merchants have room for improvement when it comes to earning and maintaining trust. The credit card number theft was only possible because the provider knowingly broke Visa's rules. I see sites every week that have insecure payment pages setup by lazy or unscrupulous developers