CLE On Digital Data After You Die
The American Bar Association is presenting a CLE entitled, Privacy, Probate, and What Happens to Your Digital Data after You Die?, Tuesday September 22, 2015, 1:00-2:30pm Eastern, online. Here are some details about the event:
As Americans increasingly live their lives online, they are leaving more and more data behind in digital form when they die. Should families be able to retrieve the digital data of loved ones? Under what circumstances?
Can probate lawyers and estate executors get access to the deceased digital data and, if so, how? How are social media handling the many requests for access to digital data, and can such access be provided consistent with the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and other laws? To address this, the NCCUSL has drafted the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Data model law, which the ABA approved in August 2014. Some have criticized the UFADDA as insufficiently protective of privacy interests, and have advocated a competing measure known as the PEAC.