[Infowarrior] - 'Proof of Life' services, among others...

[Richard Forno]

The issue of what-to-do with digital data and accounts is the subject  
of this WaPo article.  One of the more interesting ideas I cut  
below.... of course, there wil be security/privacy/resilience  
consideraions ... ranging from 'who watches the watchers' to issues of  
the 'watchers' going bankrupt or having their systems compromised.    
But interesting idea anyway.      -rf


Web sites let online lives outlast the dearly departed
By Michael S. Rosenwald
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 25, 2010; A01

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The new sites, with such names as DataInherit, Entrustet, Parting  
Wishes, VitalLock, My Last Email and If I Die, deliver the bad news in  
novel ways. With deathswitch.com, if users don't respond to regular e- 
mails to confirm that they are still alive, the site gets increasingly  
worried about them, sending notes that nearly beg for a reply: "Please  
log on using the link below to demonstrate that you are still alive."  
If users don't respond within a set period of time, "postmortem" e- 
mails stored in their account are delivere

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/24/AR2010012402886_pf.html