Kavan Ratnatunga writes:

Kavan continues:

Here's the NNP entry:
Charles E. Boyle Diary(https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/641070)

Gerry writes:

Packrats like us are the fodder for a decluttering trend based on the idea of thinning your material possessions in life, so you don't burden your survivors in death. But many people now burden their survivors with nonmaterial possessions, too, in the form of countless digital files and online accounts. (Especially those who believe in archiving every email and file.)

That's why you need a plan-one that gives you the full benefits of retaining your digital history while you're alive but thinks ahead to what your children are going to do with all that when you're gone.

To read the complete article, see:
Why Everyone Needs a 'Digital Death-Cleaning' Plan(https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/digital-death-cleaning-plan-f407cf27)

The internet is aging. As soon as the 2060s, there may be more dead than alive users on Facebook. Many of the platforms that are now part of society's basic infrastructure face a similar prospect. What happens to these platforms-and their users-when they die, will become a critical battleground for the internet's future, with major implications for global power relations. Yet we have done virtually zero preparation for it.

We know that everyone using the internet will die, and that hundreds of millions, or even billions, will do so in the next three decades. We also know that this poses a serious threat to an economy based on targeted advertisement (the dead don't click on any ads, but require server space nevertheless). Yet the tech giants appear to have no plan for what to do as their (undeniably material) servers are filled with dead user data. Since dead people generally lack data privacy rights, it may gain a new commercial value as training data for new AI models, or even be sold back to the descendants in a kind of deal. But the ethical aspects are thorny, and the financial bearing shaky.

Experience (and sheer logic) also tells us that the platforms that dominate tech today will sooner or later fail and die. What will happen to the user data? Can it, like other assets, be auctioned to the highest bidder? Will it be used to train new algorithms to trace the users, or their descendants? A hypothetical failure of a DNA testing company that stores our most personal information on their servers is a chilling example. These questions show how the fate of our digital remains is inextricably entangled with the privacy of the living. Yet, as of today, their answers are few and vague, as if the thought of a tech giant dying were beyond our comprehension.

To read the complete article, see:
Everyone on the Internet Will Die. We Need a Plan for Their Data(https://time.com/7005363/internet-postmortal-age-data/)