Years ago the company I worked for built an application for a large insurance company that let you send messages to people after you died. Sort of like Jor El talking to Superman I guess.
Most of the password manager apps have a feature to email some sort of access code to your designated representative if you don’t use it for long enough.
Now that so much of our personal and financial stuff is all online, it’ll be enormously useful to your next-of-kin to be able to get into your online accounts after you’re gone. Heck, simply having a list of all your accounts would be real valuable, even if the PWs weren’t included. Right now my vault tells me I have 250 online accounts for something.
Whether that’s exactly legal for next of kin to impersonate a dead person and access those accounts using that info is a separate question and doubtless varies by country. But the password vault apps cater to that desire.
Ooh, that’s handy!
That sounds like an extra feature, not a bug to me.
Presumably the people who know they would never check in just wouldn’t bother getting it in the first place, so an increase in call outs could also function to indicate that the user is now having issues living independently. After all, the expected audience is people living alone with few or no visitors, who’s going to spot that a user now really does need, say, a carer coming in or to move to supported accommodation? Having someone come round (or just call) to check everything’s OK sounds like a bonus.
It would need some link up to whatever local social care system there is so users who do keep missing calls can be flagged up and checked up on properly. It would probably be better used as part of a system of options run by social care than a private app, but it could be useful.