Digital Afterlife ? What happens to your data after you die?

[Greg Bernhardt]

Hi everyone. *I’ve been pretty busy the last few weeks and blog neglect is a definite consequence. *Ironically, it fits pretty closely with the story I was going to write about today, based on an article from the BBC that I came across this morning. *The issue is about the perpetuity of people’s data after [...]http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtualnavigator.wordpress.com&blog=11498882&post=101&subd=virtualnavigator&ref=&feed=1

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[Glennage]

Do you mean something like this?

http://www.thinq.co.uk/news/2010/5/24/what-happens-to-your-data-after-you-die/

Or are you divulging even further, into the Spiritual realm of the Akashic Records?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_records

[waht]

In the future, there will be sophisticated genealogy searches that will turn up your great-great-grandpa's stupid youtube comments, google earth pics of where they lived, and what was their favorite music based on itunes downloads.

[EnumaElish]

Don't online services have a policy to deactivate an account due to non-use? Say they do, in which case "whatever happens to any deactivated user's space, dead or alive" is the answer.

[Borg]

Something like this eventually? MyLifeBits (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyLifeBits)