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The main thing about eSignature is the willingness and ability to go to court to defend your tool and process. For the org that can't be be bothered to have a barebone customer service, I'm not sure how this will workout.
My ID card has a chip in it and can be used to sign documents. Why not support that?
The main thing about eSignature is the willingness and ability to go to court to defend your tool and process. For the org that can't be be bothered to have a barebone customer service, I'm not sure how this will workout.
It's not like DocuSign does any sort of identity verification. I signed up for a free account and they validated my email address, that's it. That would be the only identifier associated with my signature, so Google actually has more information than them.
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I wonder what happens to documents that were signed with this thing after they kill the product. Also, I wonder if the person signing the document has to agree to Google's entire ToS in order to sign the document. Congress could fix both issues with some well-thought-out legislation: - Signatures from these things have to support external validation via standard tools (e.g., Google uses PGP or whatever to sign the si…
DocuSign should start working on their "Import from Google Docs" feature.
“Google Docs ships with esignatures now… but how long until Google kills another one of their products? Stay safe with DocuSign, import your Google Docs signatures and keep them forever, with or without Google.”
First this is a great idea. Finally there is some movement on making Google Docs better. I haven't used the feature, but from reading the blog post it is sad to see how poorly Google executes on products, even at the beta stage. Some context: I've built such a product before and eSigs are more simple than they seem as long as you do a few things. 1) You need to verify somebody's identity. Sending them an email with t…
> Finally there is some movement on making Google Docs better. I just find these comments to be so strange. You can look at all of the articles in that blog to see all of the feature improvements that have launched in Docs over the past 2 years. It's a lot of stuff. Maybe they're not features that matter to you, some are available only to paid customers as opposed to free tier, or maybe you just haven't bothered to e…
They're useless. I've been paying for Google Docs for over a decade. Nothing of note has been added until they finally... FINALLY let me get rid of the concept of "pages" recently.
If you have to look at a changelog to understand what changed, then the stuff that's being shipped isn't making a difference.
In countries with legally binding digital signatures (I.e. Argentina) you need a cert issued following identity verification.
First this is a great idea. Finally there is some movement on making Google Docs better. I haven't used the feature, but from reading the blog post it is sad to see how poorly Google executes on products, even at the beta stage. Some context: I've built such a product before and eSigs are more simple than they seem as long as you do a few things. 1) You need to verify somebody's identity. Sending them an email with t…
This seems perfectly acceptable in my jurisdiction. Then again, Kentucky is pretty laid back. By statute, an electronic signature is just a mark made electronically that is intended by the signer to be a signature. That's about it. Same as if I were to sign by hand, but electronic.
Call me naive, but these laws that make electronic signatures some complicated thing seem messy to me. It's a signature. If you want to verify ID, then do that, but don't conflate the two.
No x509 certificates involved? In countries with legally binding digital signatures (I.e. Argentina) you need a cert issued following identity verification.
Most countries that accept eSignatures don't require digital certificates. There aren't many other countries as strict as Argentina. See for ex https://www.hellosign.com/blog/electronic-signature-laws-aro...
First this is a great idea. Finally there is some movement on making Google Docs better. I haven't used the feature, but from reading the blog post it is sad to see how poorly Google executes on products, even at the beta stage. Some context: I've built such a product before and eSigs are more simple than they seem as long as you do a few things. 1) You need to verify somebody's identity. Sending them an email with t…
> From the screenshots, I think it is only a fake wet signature. I'm not sure how valid that is
Welcome to 2023! I've bought a house, incorporated a company, signed a work contract and contracted a lawyer just based on Adobe mobile wet signatures on PDFs.