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Death and Your Digital Legacy
February 15, 2014
Western Business Education AssociationOregon Business Education Association
Jim Birken
Jim Birken
• Gift Planning Manager, Linn-Benton Community College, Albany, OR
• Director of Gift Planning, Retired from Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR,
• Director of Finance, WOU Foundation
• Master’s Degree in Public Administration, USC
• Past President, Northwest Planned Giving Roundtable
• Not an attorney, no legal advice is provided, please consult your own professional advisor
Gift Planning
• More complicated gifts
• Wills, Charitable Trusts, Estates, Charitable Gift Annuities
• Life Income Plans which provide cash to the donor(s) for life and then benefit the charity.
• Wills are most important tool for gift planning and asset management.
• Can use Living Trust in addition to Will
Your Will
• Provides instructions for your personal representative• Directs disposition of valued assets
• To Heirs and Devisees• To Charities
• New problem, what about non-physical, non-monetary assets?
• Digital assets on your computer and in the “Cloud”
Digital assets
• All of your files on your computer, tablet, and/or phone
• Soft assets such as Facebook postings, email, or pictures on your computer
• Real dollar value assets stored elsewhere• Online banking• PayPal• Amazon• Bitcoins
Assets in the “Cloud”
• Email at Google, Yahoo, etc.
• Pictures on Picasa, Shutterfly,• Instagram, or Flickr
• Amazon
• Audible recorded books
• Kindle books
• Who can access these?
Social Media
• Two issues:• Accessing information you wish to preserve• Deleting information that is harmful or no longer
useful
• Face Book• Google• On-line bank accounts• Web Sites
Web Sites
• Sites that you own are personal property and may be willed to another and are transferred in your estate
• Problems• Should the website shut down, or remain
active?• Who has the user name and password?• What is it? Is it a license instead of ownership?• Complicated end-user agreements
Account Access
• Can anyone else but you legally get into your files?
• May depend on the user agreement with the provider
• May depend on applicable federal law1. 18 USC Ch. 121: STORED WIRE AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSACTIONAL
RECORDS ACCESS
2. COMPUTER FRAUD AND ABUSE ACT
• State laws are not keeping up with current situation• Oregon’s bill SB54 failed in last legislative session• Uniform code is being propose for all states
• May need new federal law to over-ride conflicts
Password Managers
• Needed for my aging brain
• Primarily a database of sites, usernames and passwords
• Generates secure passwords
• Lets you keep information private during your lifetime and then provide access for your personal representative when needed.
• Such access may not be proper
Pitfalls for Personal representatives
• Passwords and user ID’s
• Encryption
• Federal and State Laws regarding “unauthorized” access to data
• Federal and State laws regarding privacy