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Six things to do with your data before you die - MIT Technology Review
How to make sure your loved ones can get into all your accounts. Or, alternatively—how to cover your tracks.
What would happen to your digital estate if you died, suddenly, before finishing this paragraph? Would your survivors be able to find what you left behind?
There is nothing hypothetical about this for many people: the problem emerges, wholly formed, when tragedy strikes. What’s worse, more than half of Americans don’t have a will, let alone one that’s up to date, according to a 2016 Gallup Poll. As a result, most survivors lack a road map to the deceased’s assets (physical and digital) or even, in some cases, the legal authority to proceed.
Fortunately, there are many things you can do now, without a lawyer, to make things easier for your survivors.
How to make sure your loved ones can get into all your accounts. Or, alternatively—how to cover your tracks.
What would happen to your digital estate if you died, suddenly, before finishing this paragraph? Would your survivors be able to find what you left behind?
There is nothing hypothetical about this for many people: the problem emerges, wholly formed, when tragedy strikes. What’s worse, more than half of Americans don’t have a will, let alone one that’s up to date, according to a 2016 Gallup Poll. As a result, most survivors lack a road map to the deceased’s assets (physical and digital) or even, in some cases, the legal authority to proceed.
Fortunately, there are many things you can do now, without a lawyer, to make things easier for your survivors.