atw: faxed signatures (and worse)

I notice that more and more, the faxed signature seems to be an acceptable 
form of agreement on a contract.  We all know how easy it is to slap a 
scanned signature on a document and when faxed........Hey presto no-one 
knows it wasn't signed!   And you can fax it from a post office or a 
library........Hey presto!  no-one knows who sent it.

Although I presume that in the ultimate scenario, it would be legally 
unenforceable, the fact remains that most contracts with corporations are 
enforced illegally, aided by market conditions that constitute market 
"fixing".

(eg:  "Pay us or you will get a bad credit rating," and/or "You cant afford 
to sue us, so you'll have to pay .........ha ha!", and/or the increasingly 
common "We'll make it too complicated for the ombudsman to 
understand.").............

(Many of these contracts are made verbally over the phone anyway, (making 
our signature redundant, with the corporation recording the conversation, 
able (using modern technology) to file, cut and paste at will.  All the 
simple old fashioned devices, that were practical for a human to record 
phone conversations with, are evidently now removed from the market?..funny 
that).

Under some government regulations........the government now regards a faxed 
signature as proof of many things...This suggests the government may have 
been seriously misled about security/technology issues...............I don't 
know where the line gets drawn and what all the things are.
I struck one last week:  Lodgement of Tenders: (clause 1.5.1 of ???).

Graphic electronic representations of our signatures and other personal 
details are available to many thousands of disaffected (current and ex) 
corporation employees in and outside Australia, whose identities are 
deliberately kept secret ((and who were originally selected with "lack of 
social conscience" being one of the important (if unstated) personal 
criteria.)  These details are also available to senior executives known to 
be without ethics, and operating in environments where there is absolutely 
no Government scrutiny.  (I am assuming that our government does not have 
spies inside corporations.)

Does all this constitute racial discrimination against humans?   It 
certainly is the beginning of the end of common law.  The right to be a true 
participant in the making of a contract, under which, one's obligation to 
perform can be enforced).

By the way, banks will now debit your account without your authority.  They 
just accept the transaction from the other party.  So long as it's an 
organization that's on their approval list, (and, of course, is not a human 
being!)  This new procedure was introduced secretly, and it took a bit of 
persistence to ferret it out.



erisalinsky@xxxxxxxxxxx
Tech writer/Procedures Analyst
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Box 4051, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic 3052 Australia

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