RUFADAA: Handling Digital Afterlives

In the digital age, we accumulate vast digital assets. RUFADAA (Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act) sets default rules for fiduciaries accessing digital assets like emails, cloud files, and virtual currency, balancing privacy with the need for access. The author uses the memorialized LinkedIn profile of a friend as a poignant example, exploring how service providers manage deceased users' accounts and the challenges ahead. The piece concludes with a reflection on the enduring significance of these digital legacies, likening them to online tombstones preserving fragments of our connected lives.