alt Hacker News> "we had an agreement with Samantha, and with her death, that agreement has terminated, and no one can be given access that was not pre-designated."
It would be nice if you could use some legal apparatus to ratchet these agreements into a trust. Corps would hate it though, so it will probably be illegal to do.
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It’s “illegal” in the sense that you could write whatever you want in your will but it wouldn’t be binding. You cannot force a party into a legal obligation they do not agree to.
The government can, though. I’m not sure if there’s any existing laws pertaining to transfer of or access to general accounts after death (as opposed to bank accounts which I’m pretty sure there are laws about).
My will says that my executor can access my accounts which alleviates Apple from legal risk if they do grant access but I’m pretty sure they are not obligated to do so.
In the United Stages, RUFADAA provides this legal framework and I think it's quite reasonable.
I wrote about it here: https://digitalseams.com/blog/what-happens-to-your-online-ac...