So who controls our digital legacy after we have gone? Planning your digital death is not really about scheduling status updates for loved ones or building an AI avatar. “It definitely made me think about my own [digital legacy],” says Lincke, who has now written his passwords down. What we want to do and what the law allows us to do with our digital legacy can therefore be very different things. Yet at present it is not the law that dominates our decisions about digital death.

Source: The Guardian June 02, 2019 04:52 UTC