ESIGN and UETA
Regulation
United States
· 1999
ESIGN is the US federal statute giving electronic signatures and records the same legal effect as their paper equivalents, and UETA is the uniform state law adopted in almost every state that does the same at state level. Together they are why an agreement executed through an API is enforceable in the United States.
Horizontal regime. It binds companies by what they do with data, software or
customers, not by the sector they sit in. The industries below are where it creates
specific, additional duties — not the limit of who has to comply.
Regions
Industries
Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.
Implemented by these standards
A regulation is the law; a standard is the machine-readable contract that satisfies it. Almost every regime in this catalog restricts an interface rather than requiring one — where a standard exists, it is the part a provider can actually publish.