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One method of ensuring that a digital inheritance is handled legally and comprehensively is to create a digital estate plan. This can be an informal plan or legally incorporated into a will. The practical approach to is to keep a regular [[backup]] of digital assets in a secure place and appoint a single person who will postmortem deal with the assets. An up-to-date list of passwords to online accounts would be essential, as well as determining how each online account provider handles data access after a user's death.<ref name=":43">Polk, M. J. (2019). Be right back: Black Mirror and the importance of digital estate planning. ''South Carolina Lawyer, 31''(1), 52-57. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.barjournals/sclwy0031&i=54</ref>

===Password vaultsmanagers===

There are several services that offersecurely to keep multiplestore passwords, sending them to designated people after a user's death. Some of these send the customer an email from time to time, prompting to confirm that that person is still alive, and. failureFailure to respond to multiple emails makes the service provider assume that the person is deceased, and they will disclose the passwords as previously requested. A company may require two verifiers who both must confirm the death, as well as providing a death certificate, before any passwords will be disclosed.<ref name="Duffy2012Duffy20122">{{citePCMag. web|last1=Duffy|first1=Jill|date=(2012-10-08|title=, October 8). ''Get Organizedorganized: Passing on Youryour passwords.'' Passwords|url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2archive/0,2817,2410635,00.asp|accessget-date=2015organized-03passing-18|website=[[PC Magazine]]|publisher=PCMag Digital Group}}on-your-passwords-303572</ref>

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