What is an electronic signature?
What is an electronic signature? We all recognize and are aware that a person's name, surname, or title are scrawled in their signature. It serves as evidence of permission, contractual status, and endorsement of the information in a document. Its legal purpose is to confirm a person's identification. A digital signature accomplishes the same thing. It is a digital declaration of a person's acceptance of the information included in a document or a set of data connected to the signature. An electronic signature, like its analogous handwritten counterpart, is a recognized legal method of expressing the signer's intent to abide by the provisions of the document they have signed. It doesn't matter how or what type of "mark" was made. It is important to demonstrate who made the mark and that there haven't been any subsequent alterations to the document. An electronic signature for human resources is defined as data that is "in electronic...