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I just bought a house and never signed one piece of paper in the process (up to the closing, of course. Then I signed several hundred pieces of paper.) All of
by davidmr 14y ago
I just bought a house and never signed one piece of paper in the process (up to the closing, of course. Then I signed several hundred pieces of paper.)
All of the contractual agreements until then were signed digitally through DocuSign and they even have a nifty little iphone app. Of course they were all contracts written by my lawyers, but that counts as data. The concept of a written signature is far less relevant than it used to be. As people have mentioned actually signing a piece of paper digitally or otherwise isn't required for many legally binding contracts. (For example, my previous lease on my apartment was an email exchange between me and my landlord agreeing on the terms. Had he or I broken the terms of it, it would have been enforceable in court (in IL at least; anywhere else I couldn't say.))
- mtrimpe 14y agoOkay, so DocuSign seems to be quite close. For my idea you'd have to imagine DocuSign with: - an OAuth(-like) API for other sites, e.g. Reddit, to sign micro-data on your behalf. - the ability to retract signatures after time X and notify subscribers of that data of it. - [optionally] a fraud detection algorithm to give advance warning of possible malicious usage (app compromised or your app password.) - the ability to request confirmation of a signature before time X for cases where retraction after that moment is unaccaptable. That would make it possible for webapps to have every interaction with it be provably performed by the user, turning it into a legally valid audit trail.