ABSTRACT
Businesses, through the use of the internet, can enter into electronic sales contracts with other businesses located in different countries or sell data to a third country easily and quickly. The potential for disputes in the validity of cross-border electronic contracts and the protection of transborder data privacy, is, obviously, much greater than in a paper-based environment where a high degree of commercial contracts are domestic in nature. The determination of internet jurisdiction and applicable law could be much more complicated and uncertain because online contracting is often executed in several places and it is difficult to ascertain the principal place.
