Parents create a "digital trust fund" for their baby

When Slate contributor Amy Webb and her husband had a baby, they resolved to do the opposite of what most Facebook parents do: they promised to never post her picture online. In our increasingly non-private internet world, it's impossible to predict how our photos online today will be used ten years from now.

The Webbs went even further: they signed their baby up for a Gmail account and used it as the core for a slew of accounts under her name with online services like Twitter and LinkedIn. When their baby is old enough, they will give her the master password to all the accounts. Thus ensuring that no one with the same name will come along in that time and poison future Google searches. (Imagine if you had a four year old kid was named Dylan Klebold or Ariel Castro.)

They are calling it a "digital trust fund," and I think that's pretty clever!

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