Secure online data inheritance and tech estate by inventorying accounts, appointing executors, and using platform tools for post-death access. Pixabay, fancycrave1 In the modern era, a person's life ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matthew F. Erskine is a trusts and estates attorney. Carl Öhman's book, The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information ...

The images and files you have on iCloud don’t have to be locked away forever if you pass away. Photo: Cult of Mac Thanks to a new feature in iOS 15.2, you can designate legacy contacts so your loved ...

Over the last few decades an increasing amount of our lives has been moved online. With the advent of social media and cloud storage, things that were once analog or physical have become digital. In ...

A digital legacy is the online footprint that is left when someone passes away. This could include any of their online accounts (like email, banking or investment accounts, photo archives), their ...

The author of Black Meme has ideas for how to protect digital culture from the rise of generative AI. It starts with embracing slow media. Within the frame of a single image lives a lifetime of ...