On the threats to consumer safety posed by signatures on electronic screens  

The petitioner brings to the European Parliament’s attention a practice that, in his opinion, is very widespread among banks and major firms and which could be a threat to consumers’ security and safety and their rights, namely signatures to conclude contracts between firms and consumers signed on an electronic screen. The petitioner considers that firms could take a signature of this kind and put it on other documents too, not just on the document that the consumer actually signed. He calls for measures to be taken to prevent these signatures being used for other documents that consumers might not even know exist.