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A "thumbs-up" emoji is just as powerful as a signature, a judge has ruled.

Be careful how you emoji in the future, after a Canadian judge ruled that sending someone a "thumbs-up" symbol in a message can potentially enter you into a legally binding contract.

Be careful how you emoji in the future, after a Canadian judge ruled that sending someone a "thumbs-up" symbol in a message can potentially enter you into a legally binding contract.

Sending a thumbs-up emoji as a response could be considered an agreement to a legally binding contract, a judge in Saskatchewan, Canada, has ruled.

A judge in Canada has ruled that the thumbs-up emoji can be used in a contract agreement similar to a digital signature for validity purposes.

According to a Saskatchewan judge, a farmer's emoji response to a contract made him accountable for 82,200 Canadian dollars. 

Sending a thumbs-up emoji as a response could be considered an agreement to a legally binding contract, a judge in Saskatchewan, Canada, has ruled.

Justice Timothy Keene noted that the emoji is a "non-traditional means to 'sign' a document, but nevertheless, under these circumstances, this was a valid way to convey the two purposes of a signature."

While the defendant argued that the thumbs-up just signified that he'd received the contract, the judge disagreed with that interpretation.

A judge in Canada has said that a thumbs-up emoji can amount to a contractual agreement, while ordering a farmer to pay over $82,000 for not delivering product to a grain buyer after he responded with a thumbs-up image over text.The Court of ...