The Complicated Case of Passing On Your Digital Estate
When a loved one dies, who downloads their important files from their cloud storage account? Who monitors their email inbox? Who decides what happens to the photos and videos on their social media accounts? And what if those tasks fall to you?
Everyone will die, but not everyone has planned what they want to happen with their digital assets after they're gone. Even when someone makes a plan, survivors might still be limited in what they can do.
Tying up loose ends can become a nightmare for the living, especially when the volume of digital assets is enormous. Still, the more you know, the better you can plan for your own digital estate, and the easier it will be to manage someone else's.
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The biggest determining factor in how much work it’s going to be to manage the online accounts and digital assets of someone who is incapacitated...
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