It’s hard enough for most of us to remember our passwords and manage our online accounts. What happens when we aren’t around? As more of our key information and assets migrate to online formats, the question of what happens to our “digital estate” upon our death or incapacity has become a more pressing, difficult and common question than ever before. In this episode, we discuss how important our digital lives have become, the growing number of issues that arise after death or incapacity, and current approaches to “digital estate planning.”
Link to the episode: Planning for Your Digital Estate
Segment 1: Planning for Your Digital Estate
- What Your Will Should Say About Your Digital Assets – Ride the Lightning
- Postmortem Life Online – Naomi Cahn (PDF file)
- 19,000 Facebook Users Die Each Day…. - Death Reference Desk
- State Legislation on Digital Assets - Digital Estate Resources
- How to notify the major social networking sites when a member is deceased
- Facebook – Report a Deceased Person’s Profile
- Twitter – How to Contact Twitter About a Deceased User
- LinkedIn – Deceased Member – Verification of Death Form
- Digital Asset Services
- LastPass - Tom’s preferred online password manager
Segment 2: Revisiting - wherein we revisit the topic of our last episode, Lawyers Go Mobile.
Segment 3: Parting Shots
Recorded: April 27, 2012
Length: 31:28
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