What happens to our digital estate after we pass is an increasingly important topic, as this WIRED article shows. This isn't just about the difficulties that family and heirs left behind grapple with. Services trying to do the right thing and create a path also risk creating #security vulnerabilities, just like the ones we see emerge with account recovery flows. Happy to see the thoughtful features that FIDO Alliance members have built into their offerings highlighted in this article.
#DigitalEstate #Death #Legacy
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-a-password-manager-to-share-your-logins-after-you-die/
How to Use a Password Manager to Share Your Logins After You Die (2025)

Your logins will live on after you pass on, but password managers allow you to maintain and share your digital legacy.

WIRED

That's also why the work that the OpenID Foundation DADE Community Group has been doing is so incredibly important. Their paper on 'The Unfinished Digital Estate' explores the cultural, legal, and technological complexities of digital life after death, and is open for comment right now. Please check it out and provide input on this vital topic. Kudos to Dean H. Saxe, @saxe @sphcow, and @mikekiser for leading the charge on this.

https://openid.net/open-for-comment-the-unfinished-digital-estate/

Open for Public Comment: The Unfinished Digital Estate

A new OIDF research paper is now open for public comment: "The Unfinished Digital Estate: Culture, Law, and Technology After Death."

OpenID Foundation - Helping people assert their identity wherever they choose
@NishantK print out the emergency kit (1Password’s name for it) and put it in the safe with all the other important documents!