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One more state has joined the fight for digital death rights! This month, Senator Dorothy Hukill, in Florida, introduced SB 102 addressing digital access issues after death. Her bill, modeled after the Uniform Law Commission’s recommended Digital Assets Act, automatically allows an individual’s executor unlimited access to all digital assets upon death. That means access […]

Facebook is finally giving users more control over their digital content after death. This month, Facebook announced they will allow users to select a Legacy Contact, an executor to manage their Facebook page after death. Previously, after a death, Facebook would turn a user’s profile into a memorial page, but there were limited options for […]

Yahoo! Japan is taking users’ digital lives seriously, by stepping up to provide a strategy for dealing with digital accounts after death. Their new Yahoo! Ending service ensures important digital information isn’t lost when a user passes. The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo! Ending provides multiple options for users to choose how their digital […]

The US Supreme Court acknowledged the personal nature and importance of our digital lives today by delivering a unanimous ruling requiring a warrant for cops to search cell phones. Business Insider reports that the decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, says cell phones are a digital record of our most private information and shouldn’t be treated […]

One overlooked planning area for digital assets is privacy rights generally but specifically, the patient’s medical records. Prior to 2013, the patient’s privacy rights lasted through death and in perpetuity. Now, privacy protection remain in place at a federal level for 50 years form the date of death but individual state laws can provide additional […]

Welcome to Digital Death! We believe that the rapid push to an online world has far outpaced our ability to manage the information we are creating, and that the laws and policies that govern access, privacy, ownership and related property interests in digital assets have failed to keep pace with this change. We want to […]