How to Remove Public Online Information

How to Prepare your Digital Life for your Death?

As people plan for the inevitable, their top priority is where they want their property and money to go. Although it is extremely important to decide how your property and money will be disbursed, it is also imperative that you think about your digital life. The rise of technology has come with an increase in online presence and digital assets.

Most people in the world today have social media accounts, emails, photos and videos online, and financial accounts online. The list of digital assets you may have online are endless, thus it is important that you either (1) set up a password manager kit, (2) include your digital assets in your estate plan, or (3) check if the website you are using allows you to add a recipient to your account once you pass away.

How to Prepare your Google Account for your Death?

Google offers an inactive account manager that automatically turns over control of your account to a person that you choose after your account has been inactive for a certain amount of time. Google has a default setting where your account will automatically turn over to the person you assign after three months of no use. However, this default setting may be modified.

With inactive account manager, you may choose up to 10 people who will receive permission to download the data, that you allow in advance, from your google account. This means that you may keep certain data private even after you pass away, your designated individuals will only have access to what you provide.

How to Prepare Facebook for your Death?

Similar to google, Facebook has a feature called “Legacy Contact,” which allows you to designate a person responsible for your Facebook profile once you pass away. When you pass away, your Facebook profile becomes a memorial, and your legacy contact has the ability to write a pinned post for it, respond to new friend requests, and update your Facebook profile picture.

Although your legacy contact will not be able to log into your account or read your messages, they will be able to download a copy of your Facebook data.

How can I Store my Passwords?

If you are the type of person that is extremely organized, you might consider making a list of all your usernames and passwords and keeping it in a safe place. However, this requires constant updates of the list when you change your passwords or open new online accounts.

Thankfully, for the individuals that do not want to deal with the hassle of updating their manual list constantly or that do not have the time to manually update the list there are password manager service apps that make your life easier. Apps like “Keeper” and “1Password” can store all your important online information, including passwords, software licenses, social media, iCloud account, and credit card information. These apps allow you to designate an emergency access contact that will be able to access your account when you pass. These apps make your life easier by storing all your information in one place. This way your designate emergency contact will have everything they need after you pass.

In this digital age that we all live in, it is crucial that we provide our loved ones not only with information on our physical possessions and money, but also on our digital assets that contain such sensitive and private information.

EPGD Business Law is located in beautiful Coral Gables. Call us at (786) 837-6787, or contact us through the website to schedule a consultation.

*Disclaimer: this blog post is not intended to be legal advice. We highly recommend speaking to an attorney if you have any legal concerns. Contacting us through our website does not establish an attorney-client relationship.*

Share this post

Eric Gros-Dubois

Founding partner Eric Gros-Dubois established EPGD Business Law in 2013. With over a decade of experience expanding the firm and leading it to its current success, Eric now primarily manages the corporate division of EPGD. Given Eric’s educational background, holding both a JD and MBA, combined with his own unique experience of starting a business from scratch and growing it to a multi-million dollar firm, he brings a specialized and invaluable perspective to those seeking legal assistance for themselves and their businesses. Having now instilled his same values in our team of skilled corporate associates, Eric leads a firm that is always ready, willing, and equipped to handle any and every legal matter that a business owner may have.

Discussion

*The following comments are not intended to be treated as legal advice. The answer to your question is limited to the basic facts presented. Additional details may heavily alter our assessment and change the answer provided. For a more thorough review of your question please contact our office for a consultation.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Search

Categories

Categories
FREE DOWNLOAD

The Entrepreneurs Handbook

This is a quick legal reference guide covering 16 topics that every business owner needs to have to start a business

FREE DOWNLOAD

The Entrepreneur's Handbook

This is a quick legal reference guide covering 16 topics that every business owner needs to have to start a business