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<div style="line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 175%; color:navy; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;">'''GC e-signature legislation and terminology'''</div>
 
<div style="line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 175%; color:navy; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;">'''GC e-signature legislation and terminology'''</div>
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Part 2 of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) defines an electronic signature as follows:
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“a signature that consists of one or more letters, characters, numbers or other symbols in digital form incorporated in, attached to or associated with an electronic document.”
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Essentially, an electronic signature (also denoted as “e signature” for short ) can be virtually any form of electronic representation that can be linked or attached to an electronic document or transaction.  Although not intended to represent an exhaustive list, examples of e-signatures include: