The Electronic Communications Act 2000 is a start.
Maris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Tassi" <gtassi@erols.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Re: paperless office
| Although we are getting closer to a paperless society, I think that the
biggest
| impediment is based on our legal system. Though we could electronically
transmit
| signed documents showing some type of commitment to do something, the
demand of a
| document that has a "fresh" signature is still the legal standard. The
fax
| machine has been around for many years but a document with a real
signature is
| most often demanded and follows the fax in the mail.
|
| Paperless will not arrive until a) everyone has a computer, b) they are
willing to
| acept a legal commitment via computer, c) the electronic security systems
can
| absolutely assure that people cannot be tamper with the records of falsify
them,
| and d) the courts accept that an an electronic copy is absolute proof of
the legal
| commitment. We have a long way to go to get to that point. In the
meantime, we
| will have to settle for trying to be a society with less paper.
|
| Gordon
