Digital legacy planning?

Recently I was looking around at the space of digital legacy after a conversation with a friend and ahead of a presentation myself and Sam are giving at FOSdem 2026 titled Fedi legacy; next weekend in Brussels.

I was quite shocked at some of the products and services including  expensive glorified spreadsheets templates (I won’t link to it).

Then I came across noni.digital and wanted to understand how it worked, as their site didn’t make it clear. So I checked out this video. Of course I was even more confused than looking through their site, so had a browse of their blog and finally found a video which made more sense.

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So they are using the letter of wishes (the additional document for a will, which you can add almost anything to) like machine readable wishes but you need to trust them with a ton of very private information. I’m sure they have the legal backing to do this…? However I had a look through their privacy policy… Then saw a number of points, which I assume are ok in the USA? They certainly not ok by me and those wanting to keep things secure and private.

Anyway, I’m not calling them out but its certainly why machine readable wishes can be run locally, on a remote machine or be run as a service by a trusted 3rd party.

Which makes me wonder, if others have seen similar or better?

Author: Ianforrester

Founder and firestarter of cubicgarden ltd. Emergent technology expert, public service supporter, defender of human scale flourishing, city dweller, European at heart  and social geek event organiser. Captivated by the digital legacy, future of dating, human data interaction, self-hosing, personal data, open-source, house music, neurodiversity thinking, kindness and  collaborative futures for all. Can be found at cubicgarden@mas.to, cubicgarden@twit.social and cubicgarden@blacktwitter.io

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