GLOSSARY · TAX & ESTATE
Legacy contact
A person you name inside an online service to manage or receive your account's data after your death or long inactivity, such as a Facebook legacy contact, an Apple Legacy Contact or the contacts in Google's Inactive Account Manager. Each service decides what the contact can do, and most do not let them log in as you or read private messages. Under the fiduciary access law most states use, a choice made in such a tool generally takes priority over a will.
Also called: trusted contact, inactive account manager, emergency access contact, digital heir
LEARN IT PROPERLY
CHAPTER · DIGITAL ESTATE PLANNING · DEEP DIVEPasswords, Password Managers and Emergency AccessCHAPTER · DIGITAL ESTATE PLANNING · DEEP DIVEEmail, Photos and Social Media After You Are GoneRELATED TERMS
SOURCES
- Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (2015), section 4. Uniform Law Commission.