signature consent
Consent form - digital signature or just full name?
<p>We are using a paper form to record consent to be recorded. We want to use a digital version to make the workflow more streamlined.</p>

<p>When digital, does the form need to have a digital signature or asking the participants to type their full name is enough?</p>

<p>The point of a signature is traditionally to demonstrate that a particular person has knowingly and deliberately agreed to a particular set of terms.</p>

<p>In both traditional and digital media, this doesn't have to take any specific form - a simple cross or X has been more than sufficient, even if it has no relationship to the name of the signatory - as long as there is other evidence that it was indeed the claimed party who did sign.</p>

<p>Thus, if you can reliably or reasonably demonstrate that a particular person has   agreed to the terms, they can do something as simple as <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickwrap" rel="nofollow noreferrer">click a button or check a box</a>; typing their own name may be additional security against an accidental click, and a digital signature is that much stronger still.</p>

<p>See this related question on <a href="https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/28018/gdpr-and-online-forms-how-to-prove-that-the-data-owner-opted-in">what is needed for proving that the "signer" did indeed "sign"</a>.</p>
