Taxation & Estate Planning

Wired Magazine on Disposing of your Online Assets

By Joel A. Schoenmeyer

The March 2010 issue of Wired has an interesting article about companies that deal with your online assets after you die. The article says that the companies:

... keep customers' passwords, usernames, final messages, and so on in a virtual safe-deposit box. After you're gone, these companies carry out last wishes, alert friends, give account access to various designated beneficiaries, and generally parse out and pass on your online assets. Digital remains that are not bequeathed to an inheritor are incinerated, closing the book on PayPal accounts, profiles, even alternate identities....

Here is a link.

Full post as published by Death and Taxes Blog on February 25, 2010 (boomark / email).