2025‐05‐28 Minutes - openid/death-and-the-digital-estate GitHub Wiki

2025-05-28

  • Attendees

    • Mike Kiser (SailPoint)
    • Eve Maler
    • Miki Brotzler
    • Gary Gwin
    • Tim
    • George Fletcher
    • Victor Lu

  • Note taker: Eve

  • Welcome and antitrust policy reminder

  • Upcoming meetings

    • 2025-06-13 7:00 AM PDT (GMT-9)
    • 2025-06-25 3:00 PM PDT (GMT-9)

  • Agenda bashing?

  • Review recent articles / links posted in Slack

    • See new temporary repository of resources and links in HackMD - to be moved to our wiki

  • Name, image, and likeness

    • have to consent to recreations ahead of time
    • George- not sure you can specify everything
    • Gary - yahoo has a cross-functional sync
      • "What's our policy?"
      • inactivity contact / context
      • legal qualifications
    • Potential intersections with the world of actors and performers

  • Documentation / signing would be essential

  • Multiple locations for delegation documents, etc - with implications for different jurisdictions

  • the notion of being able to state your wishes that's asynchonous to the actual execution of it

    • Eve: right to use licensing model
    • licensing is much stronger
    • Famous people can enforce licensing constraints better because they have means, and they'll discover more easily that they've been impersonated - ordinary people less so

  • George: use case from a couple weeks ago

    • Apple ecosystem - shared calendars, one of which was church volunteer work
    • He assigned it to a specific calendar, and it "came from" George's wife.... (accidental origin)
    • Benevolent impersonation (has potential harms)
      • Benevolent access by impersonation - could a family member objecting later rely on this? (contributed by Tim)
    • Illegal unintentional usage

  • Gary: Digital Power of Attorney:

    • Digital Power of Attorney (DPOA): This is an evolving area. Some states in the U.S. have enacted the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA) or similar legislation. RUFADAA aims to provide a legal framework for fiduciaries (like executors or agents under a power of attorney) to access, manage, and distribute digital assets.
    • THIS SHOULD BE HIGHLIGHTED IN THE PAPER

  • Planning Guide for Cyber Security Awareness Month

    • Dean authored a first draft outline for the planning guide
      • Review draft outline - everyone please check it out! ^^
      • Identify areas for improvement, volunteers to produce PRs
      • Review Open Issues for CyberSecAwarenessMonth
      • Consider a "maturity ladder" approach to offering advice?
      • Be sure advice is dated, possibly "geo-fenced" for jurisdictional etc. considerations, and modest in its claims

  • AOB