suzanne walsh, who chairs a committee on the uniform law commission, an organization which drafts laws which it hopes to standardize in all 50 states, is hoping to change that. over the past two years, walsh's committee has been drafting the fiduciary access to digital assets act, which would give fiduciaries the same rights over online estates as they now have over physical estates. >> fiduciaries, traditionally, have access to everything in admin... especially in administering estates. and that used to mean opening up the mailbox, opening up the file cabinet, rifling through the desk. our act is designed to continue that and facilitate that, given the different nature of the digital assets. >> reporter: the bill was reviewed and enacted by the uniform law commission this past july. but it's still up to individual state legislatures to propose it and pass it as law. as of now, only one state, delaware, has signed the act into law. even so, the new law has faced opposition. the general counsel of a washington, d.c.-based group called the state privacy and security coalition, which repr