Ars Technica reports:
Delaware has become the first state in the US to enact a law that ensures families' rights to access the digital assets of loved ones during incapacitation or after death.
Last week, Gov. Jack Markell signed House Bill (HB) 345, “Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets and Digital Accounts Act,” which gives heirs and executors the same authority to take legal control of a digital account or device, just as they would take control of a physical asset or document.
Earlier this year, the Uniform Law Commission, a non-profit group that lobbies to enact model legislations across all jurisdictions in the United States, adopted its Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (UFADAA). Delaware is the first state to take the UFADAA and turn it into a bona fide law.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 20 2014, @03:04AM
Safe House (1998)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120051/ [imdb.com]
This film includes a "Dead Man's Switch".
My family and friends can kiss my ass, or
rather my DMS!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 20 2014, @03:39AM
He had a thing for nigger squid. Enjoy.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday August 20 2014, @01:38PM
You drive a car, you get into an accident, end up in a coma. Your relatives get access to your porn collection through state act and police get involved with said collection. You wake up from coma just find out you are now in a prison hospital instead slapped with a criminal charge (wrongful or not).
Or your heirs get access to monetary funds and wreck them because they are clueless.
If you use crypto keys. These data will be *gone* unless someone finds a way to get that key from your brain. But if you get healthy you can still continue to use your data.
(Score: 2) by TK on Wednesday August 20 2014, @02:44PM
Write down your crypto key and put it in a safe deposit box. Or if you're into some really kinky stuff, write down the key that formats your hard drive. Truecrypt had that feature, right?
The fleas have smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite them, and those fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 20 2014, @06:42PM
If you have the kind of porn that will put you in prison, the hosting service has already scanned it for known illegal images. So unless you are manufacturing your own, chances are you are already screwed.
(Score: 2) by Daiv on Wednesday August 20 2014, @05:28PM
Everyone seems to just accept that digital goods are licensed, however, this doesn't need to be the case. This could be the start of challenging the "ownership" of digital items. I avoid purchasing (licensing) music, movies and video games digitally and tend to only purchase physical goods. I'm hoping a first-sale doctrine of digital goods gets established in this decade and this seems like as good a place as any to start.