Decisions related to electronic signatures are becoming more and more numerous. More than 200 decisions on the subject were handed down by the appeal courts in 2024, twice as many as the previous year. This trend can only be confirmed since the use of electronic signatures is becoming widespread in all sectors.
It is still the consumer credit sector that is the main source of this dispute, alongside a few rare cases relating to employment contracts or guaranteed residential leases. In the B-to-B field, electronic signature disputes remain extremely rare
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Biometrics is developing rapidly. But with what legal protections for personal data and therefore civil liberties? Europe still wavers between the American model, which gives free rein to security and commercial initiatives, and the need to protect civil liberties.
French version of the article in La Tribune.fr
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Regulation 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of July 23rd, 2014 “on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93/EC” (“eIDAS”) is a major building block in the construction of a digital Europe. Published almost a year ago, it will be directly applicable in France as of July 1st, 2016, which is virtually tomorrow.
Yet astonishingly, the eIDAS Regulation is virtually unknown in France.
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