A new approach to digital assets management system after death of a user

Jin Mook Kim, Hwa Young Jeong, Sang Soo Yeo

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Abstract

Recently, use of individual cyber space such as social-network service is increasing rapidly. User can display his virtual life and express various characters. And he can more sharing individual's inclination, personality, and dilettante life etc. But when social-network user died, he doesn't arrangement his social network services. So, user's household or successor must be arrangement user's used social network service and owned digital assets against of user. In this time successor want to need more easy and efficiency about to manage a dead user's digital assets arrangement. They want to delete or modify or management dead user's digital assets. But, Facebook, Twitter, Flicker, YouTube, Paypal that very popular social network services is very difficult to digital asset management. For example, if Facebook social network used user dead, than his successor must be connect Facebook inc. And he checks information for his dead family and send user's death truth to Facebook administrator. Next, Facebook administrator verify to user's death information by trusted government organization. And accept to successor's requests. As well as, some successor is very difficult to delete, modify, or stop to boarding a text on web site. So, we propose ADAM (A new approach to digital asset management system after death of a user). It can successor will be more easy, efficiency, and safe to access a dead user's digital asset at once. It makes use of existent user certification system and token techniques, because mutual authentication on various social-network services site will use to successor, and successor easy handling dead user's digital asset. If successor may don't know identification or something of dead user's, he can manage the dead user's digital assets. We will investigate and explain that ADAM can support to convenient, safe, and efficient.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFuture Information Technology, Application, and Service, FutureTech 2012
Pages547-555
Number of pages9
EditionVOL. 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event7th FTRA International Conference on Future Information Technology, FutureTech 2012 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Duration: 26 Jun 201228 Jun 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
NumberVOL. 1
Volume164 LNEE
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

Conference7th FTRA International Conference on Future Information Technology, FutureTech 2012
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver, BC
Period26/06/1228/06/12

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology(2011-0014394).

Keywords

  • Digital asset management
  • Personal information management
  • Privacy
  • Social network
  • Virtual life

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