2025‐07‐11 Minutes

2025-07-11 Meeting Minutes

• Attendees

  • Dean H. Saxe (self)
  • Bjorn Hjelm (Yubico)
  • Mark Haine
  • Tim
  • Victor Lu
  • Tom Herb

• Note taker: Dean H. Saxe

• Welcome and antitrust policy reminder

• Upcoming meetings

  • 2025-07-23 3:00 PM PDT

• Review recent articles / links posted in Slack

  • https://www.everplans.com/articles/state-by-state-digital-estate-planning-laws
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/technology/personaltech/social-media-accounts-death.html
  • https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/advice-password-recovery-after-death/
  • DADE resources wiki: https://github.com/openid/death-and-the-digital-estate/wiki/Resources
    • File issues if you want something added to the wiki.
    • TO DO: Offer these resources and commentary to Stephanie Meli for distribution to the membership. Or talk to Elizabeth re: marketing.
    • TO DO: Add a link in the DADE CG to the resources wiki.

• Planning Guide for Cyber Security Awareness Month - Next Steps

  • Draft outline
    • Review Open Issues for CyberSecAwarenessMonth
  • Draft planning guide document is available in Google Docs
    • Various authors have started to contribute to the doc, we will continue to iterate on this over the next few weeks
    • Want to write? Tag a section or section(s) with your name and start writing!

• TO DO: Connect with the National Funeral Director's Association via Tom Herb (USA)

• TO DO: Connect with https://www.nafd.org.uk/ and other orgs

• Why would big tech providers be incentivized to do this work?

  • Mark Haine - to be seen as good citizens rather than being obligated by law/policy to change their behavior

• Tom posted the following https://www.colorado.edu/center/digital-legacy/