The author of the blogpost didn't mention publishing anything, just sending their parents a link to download credentials and instructions in case they're needed, and how to get to their documents. FWIW, their setup reads like it may well just randomly get hacked, anyway.
Apart from that, emergency contacts usually do get notified where I live, police take care of that, and they have to be involved with any major accident. Phones are sturdy things in
practice, and if not there's my identity card and a card with important phone numbers in my wallet.
And if they didn't, my partner would hardly sit around doing nothing if I randomly disappeared.
Yeah but in all that -- you get in a car crash, police look up your info, go to your partner's house, tell them that you're in a coma in the hospital, he or she freaks out and drives down to the hospital and is sitting next to you in the ICU while that machine beeps every 2 seconds... is everybody going to be on top of their email?
Why would she or anyone else need to be on top of their email in such a case? Wouldn't that be the exact type of emergency where that anti-kidnapping system can safely be ignored?
Apart from that, emergency contacts usually do get notified where I live, police take care of that, and they have to be involved with any major accident. Phones are sturdy things in practice, and if not there's my identity card and a card with important phone numbers in my wallet.
And if they didn't, my partner would hardly sit around doing nothing if I randomly disappeared.