So folks, I've been thinking about this for quite some time and haven't come up with an idea that seems feasable to me.
We are the first generation that has pilled up a significant amount of digital assets / properties that needs to be dealt with after our earthly existance ceases. This ranges from logins to obscure nerd forums such as FHC across to accounts for more serious :cough: social media networks and finally ends in real valuable assets such as online shop accounts / banking accounts / digital wallets.
Now - there's a dilemma: best practice for all of the above is to keep it as secure and secret/safe as possible. But after you passed away, this should be easily(?) accessable to your heirs.
Even if we start from the easy assumption that there's a master login to all those account data (i.e. some kind of PW safe) - how do we pass that on, along with the master database?
Two ideas that come to mind: deposit at some kind of notary or an electronic dead man switch. Both share the same problem: you need to update it on a regular basis. Which is easy with the dead man switch, but harder with the notary. But the later is more fool-proved to of your any fuckups. You for sure do not want to let that switch on error, sending out messages beginning with "If you read this, I'm dead ... "
So, share you plans/ideas for this situation.
And to add some current RL implications to this thread, I refer you to the recent lawsuit here in Germany, where parents demanded access to their dead daughter's FB account, but lost the appeal: https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...account-berlin
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