[Chapter-delegates] Digital Life Documentary on BBC

[Joly MacFie]

There was a Swedish startup a few years back - MY Web Will - which
looked to tackle the problem Appears to have gone belly up.

I think the key phrase is "digital afterlife". There is a book,
already.. http://www.yourdigitalafterlife.com/

j

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Glenn McKnight
<mcknight.glenn at gmail.com> wrote:
> BBC  Audio Documentary on Digital Life
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rl5r4
>
>
> ABSTRACT
>
> Who do you want to be able to read your old emails when you die? Are the
> dead entitled to privacy? Jolyon Jenkins reports on the increasingly
> contentious issue of our digital legacy.
>
> As we lead more of our lives online, we leave behind an ever bigger digital
> footprint when we go. There are the public parts - the blogs, the tweets,
> the forum posts - but also the private things such as the emails stored on
> servers owned by companies like Google. Sorting out the digital legacy is
> becoming as onerous as being a traditional executor.
>
> But it brings entirely new problems: in the case of people who have died
> suddenly or mysteriously, relatives sometimes feel that they are entitled to
> get access to the email accounts of dead person to try to find a clue to
> what was happening in their lives. But many email providers resist handing
> over this material because of a confidentiality clause in their terms and
> conditions. Jolyon Jenkins talks to the Stassen family in Wisconsin who took
> both Facebook and Google to court to gain access to the accounts of their
> son Benjamin who committed suicide. He also talks to Esther in Kenya who
> similarly would like to get into her dead sister's email account to try to
> find a clue to her unexplained death. But unlike the Stassens, Esther has
> had no luck.
>
> These are uncharted waters, where analogies with old technology quickly
> break down, where the principles are unclear, and where important private
> and personal matters seem to be left to the discretion of big corporations.
>
> Producer: Jolyon Jenkins.
>
> Glenn McKnight
> mcknight.glenn at gmail.com
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