Observer 4/6/2000: "Your privacy ends here"

[Richard Clayton]

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In article <001d01bfceff$b64d12f0$0ce3050a@LGDOMAIN01>, Tom Thomson
<tthomson@linkguard.com> writes

>So government dis-information has won yet again.
>
>There was absolutely nothing needed in British law to make digital
>signatures
>legally valid.

ah... the oft quoted: "Goodman v Eban (1954) allows different forms of
signatures and the Civil Evidence Act, 1995 removes the previous
distinctions between originals and copies and forms of documents"

However, there was a problem in Scotland ! since the Requirements of
Writing (Scotland) Act 1996 did not include electronic signatures

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richard                       writing to inform and not as company policy
     fewer than 10 MPs still need adopting:  http://www.stand.org.uk/
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