Lock and Code
What happens to your data when you die? (feat. Tamara Kneese)
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You will die. Your data will not.
The afterlife of our information is a recent phenomenon, and some of the companies with the most to sort through are still just figuring it out.
As far back as 2007, Facebook was forced to reckon with mass grief when users asked the company to maintain the profile pages of the 32 victims killed by a school shooter at Virginia Tech that year. Those pages became…