Criminal protection of electronic signatures from forgery in Jordanian and UAE legislation

Abstract

This paper focuses on the importance of electronic signatures in civil and commercial transactions, especially considering the widespread use of the internet. It discusses the issue of electronic signature forgery, which has become one of the negative consequences of globalization. The main problem addressed in this paper is the ease of forging electronic signatures and the lack of legal protection against these crimes in Jordanian laws. The paper used the descriptive, analytical, deductive, and comparative approaches. The authors found that the Jordanian laws related to crimes and electronic transactions do not explicitly stipulate the act of forging electronic signatures and that the protection contained therein is for data, credit information, and electronic space only, and this is a clear deficiency. To address this problem, the paper recommends approving a special text criminalizing the forgery of signatures and electronic documents in the Jordanian cybercrime law, like UAE legislation.

Keywords: criminal, forgery, electronic, protection, signature, legislation, UAE, Jordan.