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The protection of consumer privacy in e-business is important. - because: Octopus issue in August remind customers about the importance of protection personal information. Lot of people's personal data was sold for commercial usage.
 - Solution: Not only e-business providers, but also government should take actions to help protect online customers privacy by setting up laws and policies.
 - Solution: The e-business providers should keep their marketing ethics and social responsibility during the business operation.
- because: According to HK TVB (2010,10,27), there are more than 1 million Hong Kong people buy goods through online shops. So privacy protection has become significant.
 - but: If customer data can be sold profitably and legally, it is the company's duty to shareholders to do so.
 - because: Since the company owns the large amount of the customer data, they should shoulder the reponsibility to protect the privacy of the consumers.
 - because: If companies do not protect customers' data, illegal people will probably steal them and do harm to these customers.

- Problem: consumer information disclosure
- but: It is sometimes necessary to give customer data; for example for credit checks and bank transfers
 - Solution: the service provider should be able to ensure customers' information security, especially those important data such as credit card number, ID number, and email.

- because: Yes, customers' information is as important as property in e-business world. If privacy can not be protected, no one will go to e-market.
 - Solution: Customers should also study and assess privacy risk to across oprations handling personal information.
 - Solution: Developing a privacy policy may effectively solve firm’s managerial problem which causes consumer privacy risk.
- Solution: Organizations should establish internal controls and physical safeguard for information security.
- Solution: Not only organizations, but also government should establish some departments which can help protect people's privacy in e-business.
- Solution: To improve the security of companies’ information system, both general and application informational system controls could be implemented during companies’ eve
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