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Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Law - Mansoura University

Abstract

The occurrence of the communications and information revolution and the great technical development in the use of computers and the Internet have led to amazing developments in human societies that were not limited to the economic aspects alone, but extended to the field of social and political relations, where we have been witnessing since the past two decades the harbingers of the ICT revolution, the information revolution, or the digital revolution, which was accompanied by a steady development in the field of means of communication and its various technologies, and caused an unprecedented intellectual and moral momentum. Perhaps the most prominent feature of this information revolution in the field of transactions is its superior ability to create growing opportunities for human transactions remotely, which has created in the foreseeable reality a range of transactions that take place through computers and take place via the Internet, that giant network that began its march as a means of communication and exchange of information, and then today it has become the gateway to knowledge and a wide open communication space that removes geographical borders and makes the world more like a miniature electronic village, and the Internet has changed the face of the world of contracts and business, It is no longer just a means of exchanging information, or obtaining it, Rather, it has become a field for many economic activities, and the world markets have witnessed radical developments with regard to the means or channels of completing deals and contracts, and creating a new business environment that provided customers with advanced means of advertising goods and services and then contracting and implementing them over the network, without the need for the physical presence of the parties, and the Internet contributed to achieving the actual presence of e-commerce, and helped to bridge the distance and remove barriers in all its forms between the product and the customer, including the language barrier, and it became easy to Either of them reaches the other directly and without intermediary intervention between them, through the customer's wandering between thousands of sites and electronic stores on the network and watching millions of products on the network; Accordingly, the law had to keep pace with the development in the legal relations that have recently occurred, so that there is no legislative vacuum, behavioral development must be followed by appropriate legislative development, regulating relations between individuals in light of the new changes, as although the use of modern technology opens huge horizons in front of contractual practices, However, at the same time, it carries risks that may threaten the values and rights of individuals, perhaps the most important of which appears in the creation of legal evidence of the existence and content of the contract concluded via the network, and therefore the problems of legal proof of contracts concluded via the Internet come at the forefront of the challenges facing electronic transactions through this network, and we will try through this study to search in the images of electronic signature.

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