In recent years, with the development of cloud computing, big
data and other technologies, online transactions have become the primary
transaction method chosen by the public. In the context of the epidemic, online
transactions have played an important role in stimulating economic recovery
and facilitating people’s lives. Due to the lag of the law and the encouragement
of new business formats, the legal level has not been able to keep up with the
rapid development of online transactions. Issues such as legal regulations on
civil liability for infringement of online trading platforms are still dominated
by principles, the diversity of judicial judgments cited, and the inconsistency
in understanding the degree of duty of care on online trading platforms has
become increasingly prominent. In order to promote the healthy and orderly
development of online trading, it is necessary to sort out and unify the indirect
tort liability of the online trading platform, should be considered that the
“should know” in the indirect tort liability implies negligence, and the online
trading platform should have a duty of care to promote substantive review.
method, to explore the specific connotation of online security obligation and its
relationship with the duty of care.