Internet Compliance Network (ICN) and the ICN Consumer Protection Check-List were created by EDP to help consumers make informed and intelligent internet purchasing decisions.  The Internet is the new frontier for commerce.  Like the wild-west of old, this new frontier continuously brings new opportunities for consumers but presents an equal number of traps, both intended and unintended, for consumers who are not experienced in what information to look for and what types of Internet sites to avoid. 

The ICN Consumer Protection Check-List started as EDP’s self-imposed guidelines for ensuring its websites provided the necessary information for its customers to make informed decisions about whether to purchase EDP product offerings.  But EDP quickly realized that these self-imposed guidelines should really be a standard of best-practices for all Internet commerce and decided to make this list public in the hope that consumers would learn the basics to make good purchasing decisions and to avoid scams, and that legitimate Internet vendors and marketers would ensure their sites adhere to these best practices.