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What's a "legally valid digital signature" in the context?

Short answer: nobody knows yet. Its taking shape.

UK minister of Digital infrastructure only some weeks ago announce their vision, far away from running code and new laws [1]. Dutch secretary-of-state on same days also send his digital ID vision to parliament [2].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-uk-digital-id... [2] https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/brieven_regering/det...

Well, in EU, there's existing digital signature law with (working) provisions for signing legally-binding contracts digitally...

Maybe those are some new schemes under that framework?

I'm Spaniard. My national ID has a chip and I use it daily to sign documents with a card reader and a password. You can change your password at police stations that issue ID cards. The signature is legally valid.

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