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Digital inheritance is the process of handing over (personal) digital assets to (human) beneficiaries. HistoryThe Roman law introduced the concept of universal succession, which means that e.g. in inheritance law the heirs enter into the legal position regarding property rights (includes duties and rights) of the testator by law. Unique Characteristics of Digital AssetsDigital assets are (in contrast to physical assets) more dynamic in appearance and fugacity. Data sets that can be inherited can include passwords, instructive memos, digital contracts, digital receipts, pictures, medical information (e.g. about inheritable diseases). Today, more and more values are resting on media that are not owned by the data owner but by service provider (e.g. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Salesforce, etc). Also in contrast to physical values, electronic values can be copied indefinitely, which maybe problematic if the asset represents intellectual properties. On the other hand it poses a challenge for many data heirs to receive or to create copies for all interestees when they have limited IT skills themselves. A further challenge comes with the extreme proliferation of digital data. 5-10 Gigabytes new digital assets per year per family (if one takes digital pictures into account), is rather common. Data heirs that are faced with an un-sorted data flood are often unable to separate the nice-to-have assets from crucial and core assets. Yet another problem is posed by the fact that contracts with service providers most often are automatically terminated (by the terms of service) as soon as the customer seizes to exist. Meaning that there is no right for the heirs to access that data. Handing over Digital AssetsIn contrast to conventional inheritance of physical assets, digital inheritance also needs to cope with the fact that the digital heirs may only be known by their email addresses or mobile numbers. Handing over digital assets requires additional instructions that maybe crucial for a heir to further treat the digital assets. From Wikipedia under the
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