Your Digital Legacy

With more and more people using social media and those who do on-line banking, shopping and even dating, we have created what I refer to as a digital legacy. What happens to this legacy of passwords, persona, and all types of data when we die? Does it live on? I suppose in a way it does. Like all things we have to take responsibility, while we are living, of how our digital legacy will be treated upon our death. Otherwise, it is the whim and whimsical fancy of those unknown folks handling cyberspace data. You do have a right to this information but like all things you must exert and protect your rights or lest they be taken away. How do you become empowered? Despite our increasingly data-intensive lives, the legal framework around our personal on-line data is still evolving. And you can be a part of the evolution. I recently read about the concept of having a digital will: A legally binding statement to the world declaring who should have access to your information after you die. It's a question that is bound to get only more complicated as our digitally engaged population grows older and dies. So, as you contemplate aspects of your estate planning, consider your Digital Legacy and address it now before someone else might. Contact us for expert estate planning, probate and elder law advice at www.ythlaw.com