Florida Introduces Legislation on Digital Death
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 [...]
Designate a Legacy Contact to Manage your Facebook Page After You Die
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 [...]
Yahoo! Japan Launches Yahoo! Ending to Manage Digital Death
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 [...]
US Supreme Court Says Cell Phone Searches Require a Warrant
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 [...]
HIPPA – Who gets to access to your medical records?
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 [...]
Welcome to Digital Death
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 [...]