Protection of Consumers Data in E-Commerce Transaction: An Analysis Towards the Policy in Malaysian Law and Islamic Law

Abstract

The fast pace development in computing technology has emerged the development of online transactions and e-commerce. Notwithstanding with the emergence of e-commerce, the privacy and confidentiality of data of Internet consumers must be protected. Indeed, the consumers’ data has been protected by the Malaysian and Islamic law. Hence, this paper aims to analyse the protection of consumers’ data provided by the Malaysian and Islamic law. The discussion adopts the doctrinal analysis by examining the existing primary and secondary materials including statutory provisions, case law and other legal and non-legal literature. This paper finds that both Islamic and Malaysian law protects the right of privacy of each person relate to their privacy and rights to be safe and secure which can be seen through the law enacted in the Federal Constitution and Personal Data Protection Act 2010.