Note – Privacy and Security During Life, Access After Death: Are They Mutually Exclusive?

Authors

Molly Wilkens

Abstract

The Internet has transformed the way we live our lives. What we have not yet fully realized is how it will impact what happens after we die. Specifically, the migration of financial services online, and the corresponding elimination of paper records, will hamper access to a decedent’s financial assets and may eliminate knowledge of their existence entirely. This Note explores how federal financial and internet privacy laws affect the disclosure of a person’s private financial information and offers solutions for reconciling lifetime privacy interests and the desire for access after death.

Recommended Citation

Molly Wilkens, Note – Privacy and Security During Life, Access After Death: Are They Mutually Exclusive?, 62 Hastings L.J. 1037 (2011).
Available at: https://repository.uclawsf.edu/hastings_law_journal/vol62/iss4/5