In any case, concerns over increasing secondary uses of personal information by our gov (let alone other govs) is by no means a concern unique to e-apps and, perhaps, it is one that is more salient with respect to other forms of online interactions that may yield perhaps richer forms of data (although I can see the tracking of
apostille use easily becoming a component of international terrorism investigations, particularly if their use becomes more commonplace).
Not exact matches
An electronic version promises much easier
use and is likely to change the practice of
apostille - based authentication as a result.
The electronic
apostille (and register): Under the Hague Conference on Private International Law's Convention on the Abolition of All Forms of Legalization, member states may authenticate public documents for
use in other member states by
use of a certificate called an
apostille.
Some US states now allow for electronic notarization, and electronic
apostilles, which are the equivalent of notarial seals for some purposes, are becoming
used more broadly.
The Hague Conference has been collaborating for several years with the National Notary Association (NNA) in the United States on the creation and
use of an electronic
apostille.
The holder of the
apostille will have it from someone who wants the holder to
use the document to which the
apostille is affixed in the interests of that person and thus who does not mind that the holder has his or her personal information in the document.
(Some countries
use an embossed seal through the
apostille and the underlying document; some
use rivets.
In recent years the Hague Conference has been advocating the
use of electronic
apostilles.
Different techniques for the e-
apostille are being
used or developed in different member states of the Convention, and they may
use different approaches to creating the seal on the
apostille.
The Hague Conference's
Apostille Convention provides a method of authenticating seals (and signatures) on public documents to facilitate
use of those documents internationally.