• What happens to our digital data if something happens to us?

  • The Nice start-up Legapass offers an answer to this question.

  • It provides a storage space for secure identifiers and ensures the transmission of this “digital heritage”.

"This contact has chosen you as their legacy contact."

For a few years now, Facebook has had a "memorial setting" in place to "designate someone to take care of your account after you die."

If this action may seem destabilizing at first sight, it has become almost essential in the era of “all digital”.

Especially for Jean-Charles Chemin, 36, with many active accounts on the Internet.

While working for fifteen years in start-ups in Nice as a developer, he wonders: “What will become of my digital accounts if something happens to me?

From this reflection was born Legapass.

This tool, which will be officially launched on April 26, is “a solution for securing the transmission of its digital heritage”, details the one who is one of the three co-founders.

The concept “does not currently exist in France”.

Keep passwords safe and retrieve them with a bailiff

Concretely, this system makes it possible to store its identifiers of accounts “of cryptocurrencies, Cloud where are our memories, social networks, specifies the developer.

And only designated heirs will have access to it in the event of death.

They are guarded by encryption algorithms, military grade, sent to an offline safe and with an encryption system of different keys.

We, who work for the site, cannot access these passwords.

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Security and trust being an integral part of the project, Legapass has joined the “National Federation of Digital Trusted Third Parties” and has teamed up with bailiffs to “certify that the process is well secured”.

It is also only the latter who transmit the keys to the heirs.

“We are also helping notaries in these configurations since currently they don't really know what to do with this data.

And for their part, they bring us the people to whom we can bequeath these elements,” adds Jean-Charles Chemin.

Close the accounts but allow a transfer of assets

This project, led by eight people, took about a year to set up.

“It was the time needed to ensure the safety side.

We realize that this is something quite new but which will grow very quickly.

The coming generations are completely digitized and everything is digital.

Before, during a death, we had a pile of letters, now we have tons of emails but we need access, ”says the president of the Nice start-up.

The co-founders of Legapass also wanted to prevent “digital heritage” from being lost due to lack of information.

“We don't always know that someone close to us has a cryptocurrency account and no one will go looking for that kind of thing for an estate.

We therefore propose to be an inventory but above all to be a trusted third party with data retention over time, with no storage limit, for the premium service.

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The site is accessible to all and can be used free of charge, but “transmission costs are requested”.

Other paid subscriptions are also offered.

For 3.99 euros per month or 299 euros for life and thus be able to “validate your identity, indicate your wishes, add instructions”.

A fundraiser will be carried out at the launch with the desire to recruit.

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