Fine Print of Electronic Signatures: Beyond Anderson v. Bell
Last month I wrote about the Utah Supreme Court's opinion in Anderson v. Bell which validated the electronic signatures gathered through a website to support the ballot initiative of a Utah governor hopeful. I summarized the issues under Utah's version of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) that the court analyzed in reaching its decision -- transaction, purpose, narrow exemptions, agreement to engage in an electronic transaction, and general reliability of electronic signatures. Isom on Electronic Signatures and Anderson v. Bell. This summarizes other considerations for creating systems that support valid electronic signatures under UETA that were not raised in Anderson.
Continue Reading...Electronic Signatures Come of Age: From Elections to Commerce and Beyond
Yesterday, the Utah Supreme Court, interpreting Utah's version of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) held that electronic "signatures" gathered through the website of an independent candidate for Utah state governor are valid to put the candidate's name on Utah's November ballot. Court's Opinion. The court's decision is a huge step forward in recognizing the legal efficacy of electronic signatures that may reverberate around the nation.
Adobe eSignatures "beta" - Part 2 of 2
In Part 1 of my Adobe eSignatures review, available here, I sketched the background against which Adobe has placed its eSignatures product in the digital/electronic signature landscape. However, as currently structured, eSignatures' beta remains very much a work in progress that will ultimately have only limited appeal unless Adobe makes significant changes to its operation, work flow and target audience.
Using Adobe eSignatures starts with creating an account - free at present - keyed to a specific email address. At the moment there's no company account option, whereby, for example, a list of a company's “authorized” signers could be added to one “company account” to sign on behalf of the corporate entity, subsidiary, etc.
Adobe eSignatures "beta" - Part 1 of 2
