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<i>Caveat Amicus</i>

By Stanley P. Jaskiewicz
September 28, 2006

Identity theft has emerged recently as one of the greatest customer risks in e-commerce. Certainly, no one will shop or do business at a site if he or she feels personal and financial information isn't secure on that site.

But the truth of it is that from the dawn of the e-commerce era, the identity of the 'other' person in a deal has always been an unknown risk. The identity of the person requesting a customer's personal information, whether the sender of a marketing e-mail or the owner of an e-commerce Web site, may never really be clear, even to those who read the fine-print terms and conditions in disclosures and contracts.

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