legacy contact

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legacy contact is the ability to designate someone else who is given permission to manage your profile / site when you die.

Silo Examples

Sorted by earliest to support.

Google

Google supports specifying a legacy contact since 2013-04-11 as part of their Inactive Account Manager feature for the following services/features:

• Google Account
• Gmail
• Google+
• Blogger
• Google Contacts
• Google Drive
• Picasa
• Google Voice
• YouTube

Facebook

Facebook supports specifying a legacy contact since 2015-02-12 for US users.

Sessions

Related *Camp sessions:

• 2014-10-10 Breakout: Networked Mortality - CyborgCamp MIT 2014 (YouTube video, 45:09, published 2015-01-15) the day before 2014/Cambridge.

See Also

• silos
• site-deaths
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-03/this-is-what-happens-to-your-emails-after-you-die