Learn here how to recognize signatures, sign documents through the federal government portal, and avoid queues and costs.
The e-signature feature of the portal federal government, allows you to sign documents digitally for free right from your home. You may already know this, but you may have questions about it, or you may not have known it at all; well, to do this you just need to have an account and by registering on the federal government platform using facial recognition or Internet Banking validation or even a compatible digital certificate, you can now achieve this convenient and practical upgrade directly from your home.
In Brazil, there is a culture accustomed to stamps, seals and protocols, which still fill the notary offices with people every day, even with the current possibility of using digital signatures, which in a few minutes have your document signature with the same legal validity as a document signed in a notary's office, or even a notarization. Did you know that you no longer need to go to the notary's office to have a notarization notarized in ninety-five percent of cases? When we stop to analyze this scenario and the reasons that lead people to choose to wait for hours in lines, instead of using faster technological means, we come across a lack of information, and that is why I am going to ask you to share this article with someone, because many people still do not know that digital signatures replace notarization in ninety-five percent of cases, for example. This happens because of the doubts they have about legal validity, data security, fraud and many other insecurities, because this is something that we Brazilians have, but that is why this blog exists.
If you analyze with me, fraud and errors, for example, are much more frequent in the case of physical documents, this is because they are susceptible to human error, loss, modifications, among other factors that put the integrity of the signed document or contract at risk. This is why large companies are increasingly leaving behind the stamp culture, placing their trust in much more effective technological means such as digital signatures (there is a difference between electronic and digital signatures; in digital signatures we use a digital certificate). This is much safer, in addition to the security and agility of signing these documents digitally, it brings many benefits if you compare, for example, with the traditional method of sending the document, printing it, physically sending it to collect signatures at notary offices, receiving it back, storing the file, sending it back to someone... Look, this is a thing of the past, in addition to having unnecessary costs.
What you need to know is that there are currently two types of notarization: notarization by authenticity or similarity. In the first case, the signatory personally proves that he or she is the owner of the signature by signing it at the notary's office. In the second case, the authorship of the document is verified using database records. Due to the greater rigidity of notarization by authenticity, the practice used to be required for documents such as the transfer of a vehicle. There is resistance to adopting digital signatures. In Brazil, many people don't even know that they exist. Both digital and electronic signatures have legal validity and are supported by MP 2200-2/2001, validated by other laws that came later. It is precisely the digital signature with a digital certificate that has the same legal validity as the signature in pen at the notary's office. What is the exception? The only exception that is still exclusively up to notary's offices (I hope for a short time) is the purchase and sale of real estate, which requires a public deed and the transfer of ownership to the property used. This also requires that you go to the notary's office. Knowing this, you will see how easy it is to digitally sign a document that replaces the notarization of a signature at a notary's office, and we will do this through the federal government website.
Let's say someone asks me to sign a document at a notary's office, or even to acknowledge the signature of a document, here we go:
- Access the government website https://sso.acesso.gov.br/login?client_id=contas.acesso.gov.br&authorization_id=181a07eb72f
- Create your free account on the government website
- Access the account and click on choose the file you want to sign (the file to be signed must be in .pdf format)
- Sign in the space you want on the digital document
- Enter the code number sent by SMS to your cell phone.
- Download the now signed version of the file.
To facilitate access, validation and reading more about the laws that support it, we will leave the links below:
Sign Digital Document Online – http://assinador.iti.br/
Verify Digital Document Online – https://verificador.iti.br/
Law that Authorizes Digital Signature – https://bit.ly/3lOQnEK
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