Digital Legacy Platform for Proton Drive
So, having had the genealogy / Ancestry bug for about two years, I am faced with a future problem. Although hopefully at least a couple of decades away from the fateful day, I want to be able to leave a digital legacy of my family research for future generations.
At present, I have identified about 600 genetically related family members, and along with associated records, Birth, Marriage, Death, Census records, newspaper cuttings, ships manifest records and not to mention copious amounts of photos for everyone harvested from many family photobooks and photos shared with me online. I have so far built a library of about 1,900 files and 8gb of data (all very happily and securely stored on proton drive :) and hope to add many more files and people over the next couple of decades.
I don't want this all to disappear on my death and would love for this family library to be available to future generations, as, and when (and if, of course) they become interested in their family history too.
There are a number of digital legacy start ups available online who promise everlasting availability of records. They all have their pros and cons of course but the level of trust in a) their digital security and b) their ability to survive over the next 30-100 years is low on both counts.
I would love for Proton, due to their security and by dint of their now size and a level of trust in Proton's longer term durability, to entrust this library to Proton Drive storage as a legacy solution.
This I believe would be a perfect compliment to Proton's mission for a private and secure internet ecosystem.
There would be many other reasons of course why Proton members may wish for a digital legacy platform and not just the Ancestry reason given, even just for one generation to be able to pass their photos onto the next for example, but also for shorter term reasons when passing such as wills, insurances, bank details, assets, investments, art provenance, property details etc. the list is probably endless.
I suspect this would be a bolt-on subscription rather than included in the general subscription packages as there are things to consider such as paying forward hosting over a significant period, possibly in a 'half-life' archive, post death access details and verifications WITHOUT MFA as they won't have access to my phone in 30 years time although logons etc. can be included in physical inheritance documents.
What does everyone think? Please leave comments to provide insight, product expansion ideas etc.
This would likely be a slightly longer term product feature request as would take some time to work out and package and price but I love the Proton ecosystem, and gladly pay for a bi-annual package as I think it is great functionality (albeit some of it evolving) with great trust and security which is sorely lacking across many providers and at a good price. After having been with several email and drive and password managers over the years, most with horror stories to attach, I intend to stay with Proton now for the rest of my earthly years for the reasons just given and would love to know that I could rest assured (in peace hopefully) that all my digital legacy files could remain for future family generations to access and appreciate.
Please vote if you think this is a great idea (or even just a good one).
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somejasper commented
Beneath the bloviating in the post is an excellent idea that is more important for Proton Pass. Few logins are information you want to share when you’re alive but some are essential to share once you’re dead and other people have to take over your bank accounts and pay your mortgage and collect your insurance. If you have gone paperless how do family even know what they are missing?