Electronic Signature Legitimacy for Affidavit of Identity in United States

How to eSign a document: electronic signature legitimacy for Affidavit of Identity in United States

[Music] in most cases when you have a signature it's important to know who actually signed this document so you need to have some sort of identification typically if you only sign using a scribble on the screen you don't have this identification so you need some other means to know who is the person signing the document this typically could be using an e ID in the Nordic countries we're using a ids and we also use these for electronic signatures and you've already been identified some trusted party have identified you know who you are and you can reuse this for their signature it's also possible to do that identification while you're signing for example by uploading identity documents and and taking a self-portrait and comparing that to the document this of course is somewhat more work somewhat more friction on the user but still it's probably not something you do that often and if the value is high you really need to know the identity of the sign standards are important there are standards defining how a digital signature is to the constructive and this is all about trust you need to know that you can trust the signature trust designer trust that the document hasn't changed and to be able to have a list you need to know that the the signed document could face the regulations complies to standards