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How do you make sure that someone can’t access all the living wills on the website?

Categories: General questions, How, where, when, what?

The living will can only be accessed directly from your member account, means only when you are logged in, except via QR code (and sbl.onl link) on your member card or via the emergency information on your smartphone. This is for an emergency and allows medical staff to access your living will without being logged in.

However, medical personnel do not access your living will directly via this link; instead, when the aforementioned link is called up, it first generates a different code that is only valid once and is time-limited, and only with this code do emergency personnel access your living will. This way it is ensured that as a “not logged in” person you cannot simply “browse” through all the living wills, which you could do if the link on your member card could be seen directly 1:1 in the browser window. But this is not possible thanks to this sophisticated system – access to all other living wills is denied.

But of course this link expires when it has been used, since it is valid only once, or for a limited time. Only when you scan it again will you generate a new valid access. If you use this old again, you will correctly receive an error message. If, unexpectedly, you also receive such an error message when you legitimately want to access your living will, you must delete your browser cache.

The purpose of this emergency code is to allow medical personnel to access your relevant medical data even if you are unconscious. Of course, this means that ANYONE who scans this code will be able to get directly to your living will, which is why you usually keep it confidential. But, of course, you want access to be granted whenever it is necessary.

The important thing to remember is that this code is not valid indefinitely, and starting from it, no one can access living wills of other members, which is guaranteed as described above.

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