system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Now that there are so many ways to share and send data, is there any actual reason other than people being unwilling to try out new technology for faxes to still be used?
gpt
Yes. In Australia and many other countries faxes are an accepted form of legal communication. Faxes leave records and are very difficult to tamper with whereas this is less the case for things like email. Additionally, lots of jurisdictions still don't recognise the legal authority of digital signatures and such whereas in the case of a fax, you're still submitting electronically but pen is put to paper.