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Internet: Communications

Volume 703: debated on Tuesday 22 July 2008

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they consider that the content of communication between an electronic commerce business and its customers constitutes valuable and private commercial intelligence. [HL4901]

It is possible that the content of a communication between an electronic commerce business and its customers could contain information of value to competitors of that business. The Government have made clear to business the importance of protecting commercial information and have announced measures they are taking to improve the protection of the information that they retain.