Esther Earl never meant to tweet after she died. On 25 August 2010, the 16-year-old internet vlogger died after a four-year battle with thyroid cancer. In her early teens, Esther had gained a loyal following online, where she posted about her love of Harry Potter, and her illness. Then, […]
Jessica with her friends, Ish and Amy Facebook gets a bad rap a lot of the time, but it is good for some things. These include: keeping on top of your group chat with 13 former school friends who now live on different corners of the earth, watching funny […]
A relationship break-up made Theresa Shaw question what happens to our digital assets once we die. "I had to replace my phone and was going through all these digital accounts I had and setting them up and I thought ‘There has to be a better way’," she says. "I […]
In Part 1 of ‘Bitcoin After Death’ we discussed the ownership of cryptocurrencies and the challenges associated with leaving crypto assets to the next generation. In The Digital Afterlife , we discussed some practical tips for dealing with digital assets in your estate and considered the difficulties for executors […]
Plan ahead so that family can access your iPhone photos if you die. A U.K. court ordered Apple to provide a widow access to her late husband’s iPhone photos, after a lengthy legal battle that ended Sunday when the woman and her daughter could finally look at the pictures. […]