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officers, chairmen and other officers, or by beneficial owners with more than 10 percent of the company stock.TRANSACTIONSoften get an automated email),
and if you have a will, consider
including any legacy-contact doc-
umentation.How to add digital legacy
contacts
Apple
Apple’s legacy contact settings
can be s et u p from an iPhone, iPad
or Mac computer as long as you’re
running the recent operating sys-
tems (iOS 15.2, iPadOS 15.2 or ma-
cOS 12.1). O n your iOS device, g o to
Settings tap your name on the
top Password & Security Lega-
cy Contact. On your Mac, it’s also
in Settings Password & Security
Legacy C ontact.
The way Apple has set this up
won’t be for everyone. First,
there’s the process, which starts
with a trip to Apple’s Digital Lega-
cy access page. You’re going to get
an “access key” for that person
that includes a QR code and a
string of text that you can print or
send to them via an encrypted
Messages text. Only people who
also use Apple d evices will be able
to use the digital version of the
key; you’ll have to print it out for
anyone else. They’ll need this key
and a copy of your death certifi-cate to access your d ata.
The person w ill h ave access to a
wide range of data, and there’s no
way to customize what they can
see. If you have it, t hey’ll be a ble to
get your messages, photos and
files stored in iCloud. They’ll see
your call history, email, health
data, w hat’s in the Notes a pp, con-
tacts, calendars voice memos, Sa-
fari bookmarks and reminders.
They may also access any iCloud
backups.
Then there’s w hat you can’t pass
down. Any files you purchased
through Apple — like albums,
songs, books and movies — will
not be included. Unlike a parent’s
record collection or boxes of mix
tapes, d igital music purchased o n-
line cannot be passed down to the
next generation.
Google
If y ou’re an Android user, o r just
use Google products, you can set
up something called an inactive
account manager.
There are a few key differences
with the way Google handles this
kind of backup contact. First off,
it’s n ot just w aiting for someone to
proactively try to access an ac-
count. Instead, you can set it to
automatically contact your peopleafter a set amount of time — from
three months to 18 months — after
it’s d etected y ou’re no longer u sing
your Google products.
Unlike Apple’s Legacy Contact,
Google lets you pick exactly what
data categories are included and
will be available to your backup
contact. It’s a long list and in-
cludes 52 o ptions, from basics l ike
contacts and photos to technical
details such as the “Android De-
vice Configuration Service.”
Google does list some files pur-
chased f rom the P lay store, includ-BY HEATHER KELLYIt’s not a topic most people like
to think about, but the sooner we
start planning for what happens
to our online accounts — from
social media to smartphones —
when we die, the better it is for
loved ones.
This week, we’re going to run
through some of the places you
can set up legacy contacts, and
what to do if it’s n ot offered or was
never added.
Access to online accounts after
death: Can you please comment
on the best way to set up accounts
and passwords (or a password
manager?) such that another
(trusted) person can get access to
the accounts of someone who sud-
denly became disabled or died?
— Deborah Johnson, Maryland
Many tech companies have
added features to address this,
most recently Apple, which rolled
out legacy contacts in its recent
iOS and macOS software updates
this year. However, there’s no in-
dustry standard for how they
work, so evaluate each one before
turning it on.
You’ ll want to consider a few
important d etails:
Only add someone you trust
and who you’d want to be in
charge of your digital legacy.
Revisit these settings every cou-
ple of y ears in case there have been
changes in your personal life, like
a death, divorce o r friendship t hat
is no longer a s close a s it was.
Look at what, exactly, you will
be granting them access to as
some kinds of data might be more
revealing than you’re comfortable
with such as emails or location
history.
Consider a separate backup
plan like sharing your passwords
or access to a password manager,
which can help them with ac-
counts that don’t include legacy
options or getting to data that isn’t
designed to be passed on, like
DRM (digital rights management)
protected music a nd movies.
Inform the person you’re add-
ing that they’re the c ontact (they’ll
ing movies, TV a nd books.
One nice touch from Google is
the ability to add an autoreply
email should your account be-
come inactive.
Facebook
The Facebook legacy contact
was designed to give loved ones a
way to close or “memorialize”
someone’s Facebook page with a
label, but not post as them. There
is an additional setting that will
allow that person to download a
backup of your Facebook data, in-
cluding photos and profile infor-
mation but not your messages. To
set up a Facebook legacy contact,
go to Settings & Privacy Settings
General Memorialization Set-
tings. There’s also an option to
have Facebook delete your ac-
count if you die, though someone
will need to inform the company
of your passing.
Pass on your passwords
A different approach i s to make
sure your logins and passwords
are passed down to your family so
they can access and shut down
accounts directly. This approach
also involves handing over a lot of
personal information, so consider
what will be included and your
own c omfort level.
If you have a password manag-
er, you c an make sure y our chosen
person has the main password or
passcodes to access it. The pass-
word manager Bitwarden has an
option called Emergency Access
that lets you a dd a backup contact
who can request access to youraccount. T his i s included with Pre-
mium accounts or available for a
fee.
Many o f the b ig password man-
agers don’t have legacy contacts
built in. Dashlane told us one way
to handle these situations is to
create a secure note with your
credentials and share it with one
person y ou trust t hrough t he app.
A lower-tech approach to hand-
ing down passwords is to leave a
password protected spreadsheet
with the nonfinancial logins,
saved locally to a computer (don’t
forget to leave your computer
password someplace as well). Or
keeping a simple notebook of log-
ins i f you’re not dealing with many.
Accessing accounts without
legacy contacts
It’s still possible to gain access
to someone’s accounts after they
die, even if they d idn’t a dd you as a
legacy contact. The process varies
from company to company. A pple,
for example, requires you to sub-
mit a court order that proves
you’re the person who legally in-
herits their information. Google
has a form you can fill out to
request an account be deleted or
to try to access its data, which w ill
also ask you to upload a death
certificate and ID and possibly
other d ocumentation.
Instagram has a form you can
fill out t o memorialize an a ccount.
Twitter doesn’t allow account ac-
cess after someone passes, but it
does have a form to request dele-
tion.ASK HELP DESK
Set u p legacy contacts for o nline accounts sooner rather than later
ISTOCK/WASHINGTON P OST ILLUSTRATIONFor over a decade, D emocrats
have argued t hat Internet service
providers (ISPs), like AT&T a nd
Verizon, shouldn’t b e allowed t o
favor or throttle c ertain content
on their networks, a push t hat
ushered in t he 2015 net neutrality
rules l ater repealed by the G OP.
But i n the years since, a
growing number of Republicans
have flipped that playbook on its
axis, extending it to social media
platforms and calling for t hem t o
be treated like “common c arriers”
or “public utilities” and blocked
from discriminating a gainst
users’ viewpoints.
Now, t hat legal argument is
gaining prominence within
conservative l egal circles and
could soon appear on i ts l argest
stage to date: a decision by the
Supreme C ourt.
Conservative o p-eds calling for
the g overnment to use the tool t o
“break Silicon Valley’s anti-free-
speech monopoly” d ate back at
least a s far a s 2017 b ut for years
remained largely a f ringe
proposition.
“Nobody took t hat seriously,
outside o f the n et n eutrality
debate,” said Harold Feld, senior
vice president at t he consumer
group Public Knowledge.
Legal experts and conservative
analysts point to two turning
points: an initially o bscure 2020
law article and a 2021 opinion by
Supreme C ourt Justice C larence
Thomas, floating the common
carrier model.
The article by A dam Candeub
in the Yale Journal o f Law & Tech
called for p lacing a new “anti-
discrimination requirement” on
major tech platforms “ so that
individuals, n ot corporate
platforms, set the boundaries of
on-line speech.” Candeub, a l aw
professor a t Michigan State
University, w ould go o n to play a
central role in trying to carry o ut
former p resident D onald Tr ump’s
own p lan to punish social media
companies over claims of “bias.”
Clare Morell, a t ech policy
analyst at t he Ethics a nd Public
Policy Center w ho served in the
Tr ump Justice Department,
called Candeub’s a rticle o ne of the
earliest and most prominent
arguments for a common carrier
standard for p latforms. Feld
called Candeub o ne o f the
“intellectual centers” of the push,
which Feld v iews as “bad p olicy.”
Candeub f or his part said in an
interview that he s aw i t as a
“logical and p redictable”
regulatory response to decades of
telecom law. “ The arc is v ery
much in the tradition,” he said.
Then, T homas cited the law
article in an opinion that sent
shock w aves through S ilicon
Valley, in which t he Supreme
Court j ustice argued that “some
digital platforms a re sufficiently
akin to common c arriers ... to be
regulated in this manner.”
Brendan Carr, a Republican
member o f the Federal
Communications Commission,
told me t hat Thomas’s opinion
marked a “watershed moment”
for many Republicans.
But a ccording to some legal
experts, another driving factor
may have b een brewing: a proxy
battle between the t ech i ndustry
and t he t elecom industry.
Blake R eid, a tech policy
professor a t the University of
Colorado, argued “one potential
root cause” may have b een
arguments “that non-
discrimination and privacy
regulations for ISPs w ere unfair
because [platforms] w ere not
regulated in the same way.”Reid called i t a “remarkable
shift in Republican o rthodoxy” t o
oppose n ondiscrimination
regulations for ISPs a nd then
support more s weeping
standards for p latforms.
“Hypocrisy? I ’m s hocked,”
quipped former D emocratic FCC
chairman Tom Wheeler, who led
efforts to cement n et n eutrality
rules a t the a gency in t he Obama
administration.
Carr argued the d ynamics
between the two industries are
distinct b ecause the “ abusive
practices that we’re seeing with
Big Tech” in barring some s peech
necessitate nondiscrimination
rules, unlike with ISPs.
And he said t he embrace of
common carrier-style regulation
for S ilicon Valley companies
reflects a bigger shift within the
GOP o n attitudes toward b ig
businesses.
Carr said t here’s a “ broader
realignment that w e're seeing
within the c onservative
movement, where there is a
moving away f rom the view t hat if
a large corporation wants to do it,
who am I as a conservative t o get
in the way? That h as changed.”
Regardless of its origins, the
push is r apidly gaining steam. I t
has i nspired a slew of l egislative
proposals on Capitol Hill.
The push h as also informed a
slew of state efforts to combat so-
called “ censorship,” which have
been dealt a string of bruising l egal
blows on constitutional grounds.
Now one of those measures, a
Texas law that bars social media
companies from r emoving posts
based o n users’ political ideology,
may be headed for a Supreme
Court d ecision. While it’s u nclear
whether the court w ill weigh in
on the merits of the law, i ts GOP
proponents say Thomas’s
remarks could pave the way for
their first major legal win.GOP has flipped net neutrality on its head
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