Discussion: Digital Immortality
What happens online, stays online forever and there's little you can do about it. Even in death, your life will live on in a cache of words, photos, music, and videos.
The answer varies greatly depending upon the policy of the social media companies, email providers, cloud providers, etc. Your employer, friends and family may have access to all the digital information you have left behind.
Watch the following You Tube video: What Happens Online When You Die?
Discussion Questions:
How comfortable are you with the idea that your digital life may live on forever?
Would you advocate a mandatory expiration date on data to ensure at some point it no longer exists?
Have you thought about who you want to bequeath your emails, tweets, digital photos to in a will?