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>We don't send documents via fax or courier, we send them digitally.

We still send messages via fax, because a document you sign and send by email isn't a legally signed document, wheras a fax is. I had to print out a PDF, sign it, and and fax it a week ago for this reason.

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Is that true? In NZ a digital signature is a legal signature. You dont have to print and scan it, just type your name. Legit signed.

For acknowledgement of disclosure this is done or sometimes for vouching for truthfulness. These seem like relieving another party of liability. But for giving up rights and such, I haven't seen that (typing a name) being sufficient.

There is technology to do true cryptographic digital signatures (not these fake "digital" signatures), but society doesn't seem particularly interested in that at the moment.

There seemed to be a movement in that direction a few years back, but I haven't seen anything in awhile.

In Estonia, an email is a legally signed document. We also have Digital Signatures via our Electronic IDs. You must live in a third world country, because I haven't even seen a fax machine in the past 15 years.

Estonia must be a veritable progressive paradise.

For thieves.

Seems more secure there. Everyone has a physical smart card with which they can sign documents. Much more difficult to fake than a hand drawn signature.

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