What Should Happen to People’s Online Identity When They Die?
I don&#x27;t think privacy is a new problem. When my dad died, he left piles of personal pen-and-paper letters from his former wife and girlfriends that they probably would have preferred strangers didn&#x27;t read. He was a therapist and also left confidential client information containing, for instance, interviews with child sex abuse victims for court cases.<p>This is a problem in general when you trust something to someone to keep confidential. When they die, it becomes part of their estate and it&#x27;s not confidential anymore. I don&#x27;t see why data stored in online services should be any different from data stored on your computer in your house. With the cloud, it&#x27;s sometimes not clear where it&#x27;s being stored anyway.