While there is still time
These analyses are about what happens to what a person accumulated: who gets the accounts, how rights are transferred, and why a record once made cannot be recalled.
Who inherits your accounts if you do nothing
Four distinctions carry the whole subject of digital inheritance: an account is a permission and not a thing; the tools hand over a copy and not access; a purchase in a store is a licence and not a file; an assistant's memory holds facts about a person rather than their words. The rules of Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Steam are quoted from their own agreements, and the ending lists what can genuinely be switched on in one evening.
The timer that decides you are gone
An analysis of the Inheritance Protocol: why the silence threshold is 360 days, what the seven-day warning does, why the key is split by Shamir's scheme, and three failures possible even when the mechanism works perfectly.
The right to leave
A vault that promises eternity has built itself an exit. Four tiers of freedom — weight erasure, sleep behind a two-thirds vote, a robotics plan with a budget line, and a lock that tests not the decision but its authorship. We measure them with one ruler: how much of this does not exist yet.
A document with no off switch
Every credential has someone who can switch it off: a state, a company, a registrar, a platform. The analysis follows that thread — three documented shutdowns, the closed loop of the appeal, the W3C standards and the European wallet where the state remains the root of trust. Then the build of the CODE Eternal Digital Passport: JSON on Arweave, a 43-character address, an email fingerprint instead of the email. And the price: if it cannot be revoked, a typo cannot be fixed either.
What “delete” means when there is nothing to delete with
Article 17 of the GDPR demands erasure and nowhere defines the word. The analysis walks that gap: the CJEU judgment in case C-131/12 and its logic of relevance expiring, the three framing numbers — one month to reply, 20 million euro or 4% of turnover, 764 controllers surveyed — and then cryptographic erasure under the NIST standard, which sits at the purge tier rather than destroy. It closes with what CODE Eternal does and four compromises that remain open.
The analyses are published on codeofdigitaleternity.ink. All analyses