At least 50 nations around the globe have enacted privacy statutes in order to safeguard their citizens’ personal information as they surf the Internet. US companies involved with ecommerce need to familiarize themselves with the laws of the jurisdictions in which they will be doing business. Each jurisdiction has its own unique privacy laws, which vary in depth and breadth. Research in the US on this topic is in need of interpretation and further investigation, so would benefit from inclusion in international relationships at the global and global economic level. One of the lesser known statutes out there is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The question is, what is FISA?
