It's simply panic-driven right now. Contact the sponsors and your congresspeople... and hope they'll read/think.
A good start would be: Documents notarized in traditional fashion in-person have robust evidentiary value. Rather than providing similar assurances of evidentiary reliability for online notarization, this bill leaves serious issues of long-term data retention, liability, security, insurance, evidentiary reliability and accessibility, and data privacy unaddressed. Ultimately, without tackling these crucial issues, this bill may endanger the integrity of document authentication and retention practices by prioritizing short-term convenience and embracing the allure of new technology. |
