Digital pens and related technologies have been gaining popularity due to their convenience and versatility. One of the advantages provided by digital pens is the ability to store handwritten information in the pen itself, eliminating the need to collect, transport, and/or store individual pieces of paper upon which such information may be written or to immediately download the stored information to a computing device.
However, this advantage also leads to one of the primary disadvantages associated with digital pens, namely, the potential for confidential or otherwise sensitive information to be compromised by the loss or unauthorized accessing of the digital pen. Thus, information stored in a digital pen may be unnecessarily exposed to compromise. This may violate not only good judgment and individual or business guidelines, but may also expose the user of the digital pen to liability for violation of local, state, or federal law (e.g., Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, etc.).
Accordingly, there exists a need in the art to overcome the deficiencies and limitations described hereinabove.