Lawyer Atsushi Iseda, representative director of the Japan digital inheritance association. Those left behind often struggle to access a loved one’s social media profiles to retrieve digital mementoes, whether they be photos, correspondence, as well as gaining access to online bank accounts and insurance policies.
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Smartphones are just like hidden floral gardens reflecting all the interests and tastes of their owners. Many individuals want their devices to be kept away from others’ prying eyes even after their deaths.
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sakurasuki
Even their loved ones?
wallace
Ensure your loved ones have your passwords to the site you want them to have access to.
wallace
My wife has full access to my iPhone.
Hawk
The one under my mattress, sure.
K3PO
Unsurprisingly.
Daisaku
Not all people have access to their spouse's phone.
iron man
paswords on smartphones are not the only issues, I prefer laptop use, so many passwords for regular services. So many e-mail. I keep a detailed accounts record and p/w register. So I do a regular? b-u, encrypted and pass it to 'g/f' + son. my phone will perhaps get willful destruction well b4 my laptop. that will also be retained for them by my executor. Even if it is not a site you currently privatise? it needs to be available, if? if does come to us all.
smithinjapan
Yeahhhh... aside from the garden in WWDITS I don't know too many with naked pics and porn sites, secret bank accounts and spending receipts, gambling apps, and other vices "decorating" them. I don't have anything I'm hiding from my partner on my phone, though I would feel a bit uncomfortable with her grabbing it and checking, but it's not at all like a garden.