Online tools like Willful and Epilogue encourage users to list digital assets and wishes as part of their estate planning, so that executors aren’t forced to hunt down online accounts that exist without a paper trail. “So it’s so crucial for executors and family members to have access to these digital accounts. “Often we don’t know what someone’s digital footprint is, where exactly they banked and you know, all the subscriptions they are paying for on their credit card account,” Erin Bury, co-founder and CEO of the online platform Willful told CTV News Toronto. Half of Canadians don’t have a last will and testament, according to a recent poll by Angus Reid - let alone a proper plan for digital data. She had phoned in to weigh in on a CTV News Toronto report that revealed that increasingly families were turning to funeral homes for assistance in unlocking their loved one’s phone hoping that through a fingerprint or face scan of the body, they could break in with biometrics.Ī lack of access to digital accounts after death is becoming all too common, according to experts, who say that non-physical assets are often overlooked in estate planning. Get the latest local updates right to your inbox.Download our app to get local alerts on your device.
“We’ve been locked out of his accounts, we don’t even know what he had.” “His iPhone is locked, it’s with the photo recognition, and unfortunately we have not had any luck getting in,” caller Christina told NEWSTALK 1010. When her son died unexpectedly a year and a half ago, a Toronto mother found herself at a loss trying to recover his cryptocurrency funds.
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