Upon my death, delete: how to plan your digital legacy
by Ritesh Chugh from Technology | The Guardian on (#5XT11)
Whether you want your information destroyed, stored or memorialised, many tech platforms now offer options for handling users' data after death
Our favourite memories and important documents used to be kept as physical objects: photo albums, scrapbooks, postcards, contracts and certificates of ownership. That meant, when we died, these things would be relatively accessible to the loved ones we left behind.
In the internet era, a lot of that information is stored in the cloud. Everything from photos and videos to emails, documents and contracts, and even social media posts are not easily accessible without legacy planning.
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