How will Facebook and Google handle your death?
Facebook is on its way to becoming the world's largest cemetery. What happens to all our digital media, like photos and emails, when we die? Lou explores the "digital afterlife", and why we need to prep our important data now... before it's too late.
SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Öhman’s paper: Are the dead taking over Facebook?
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/...
Brubaker’s Tedx Talk
• You're going to die. What will happen to y...
Brubaker’s paper on Facebook mourning
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Blog post by the man whose recently deceased daughter was in his Facebook “Year in Review”
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/20...
2015 Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act https://www.uniformlaws.org/committee...
CREDITS
Writer: Louis Foglia
Editor: Eavvon O’Neal
Researcher: Page Ellerson
Supervising Producer: Allison Brown
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