{"id":5245,"date":"2022-04-03T18:36:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T16:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/03\/upon-my-death-delete-how-to-plan-your-digital-legacy\/"},"modified":"2022-04-03T18:36:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T16:36:32","slug":"upon-my-death-delete-how-to-plan-your-digital-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/03\/upon-my-death-delete-how-to-plan-your-digital-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Upon my death, delete: how to plan your digital legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you want your information destroyed, stored or memorialised, many tech platforms now offer options for handling users\u2019 data after death<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/series\/saved-for-later?CMP=cvau_sfl\">listen to our podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our favourite memories and important documents used to be kept as physical objects: photo albums, scrapbooks, postcards, contracts and certificates of ownership. That meant, when we died, these things would be relatively accessible to the loved ones we left behind.<\/p>\n<p>In the internet era, a lot of that information is stored in the cloud. Everything from photos and videos to emails, documents and contracts, and even social media posts are not easily accessible without legacy planning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2022\/apr\/04\/upon-my-death-delete-how-to-plan-your-digital-legacy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1f03e74c3e6efe43827180c8899f98aa52212b82\/0_365_5472_3283\/master\/5472.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7d68c65d7c9cccf3f416280e71dfab67\" title=\"Upon my death, delete: how to plan your digital legacy\" \/>Whether you want your information destroyed, stored or memorialised, many tech platforms now offer options for handling users\u2019 data after death<\/p>\n<p>Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast<\/p>\n<p>Our favourite memories and important documents used to be kept as physical objects: photo albums, scrapbooks, postcards, contracts and certificates of ownership. That meant, when we died, these things would be relatively accessible to the loved ones we left behind.<br \/>\nIn the internet era, a lot of that information is stored in the cloud. Everything from photos and videos to emails, documents and contracts, and even social media posts are not easily accessible without legacy planning. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you want your information destroyed, stored or memorialised, many tech platforms now offer options for handling users\u2019 data after death Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast Our favourite memories and important documents used to be kept as physical objects: photo albums, scrapbooks, postcards, contracts and certificates of ownership. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/03\/upon-my-death-delete-how-to-plan-your-digital-legacy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Upon my death, delete: how to plan your digital legacy<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}