Making Online marketplaces safer for consumers
THOUGH the 2018 World Consumer Rights Day, WCRD, had come and gone, this year’s edition which held on March 15, 2018, drew a global focus on the fast evolving, ubiquitous marketplace enabled by the Internet. The theme set for the 2018 celebration by Consumers International, CI, the global consumer protection watchdog, was Making Digital Marketplaces Fairer in recognition of the growing challenges of protecting consumers in a new market that transcends physical borders, ignores geographical boundaries and confirms the age old maxim that the world has truly become a global village.
