Sydney Bradley

Facebook years ago launched legacy contacts for their Facebook profile feeds, and you could put someone down as your legacy contact if you were to pass away.

I mean, that's the thing is they do have the patent and it's now been granted.

It was filed in 2023.

So it's been a couple of years of this being in the system.

They could pursue this.

They could not.

Meta also made it clear that just because they have a patent doesn't mean it will be implemented.

But it could be one of those things I can imagine if the moment is right, the ethical debate around grief tech evolves rapidly.

Maybe people are way more comfortable with this type of thing right now.

It does not feel like we're there yet.

So I think they would definitely want to wait some time before releasing this to the masses.

But I do think that taking a break feature would have a much more easy way to implement that with the general public.

Actually, in the patent, there is some sort of language around technology.

having it at a certain different time of when your account existed.

So I think that would be potentially a use case, which would be fun if you could have different, it'd be a new take on the Finstub, sure.

Definitely around consent.

In the patent, there is explicit language about how meta would get permissions from users.

And that would definitely probably be a priority in any big rollout of technology here.

But the biggest, thorniest issues are really around we don't really know how to have...

discussions about digital rights yet for the deceased.