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Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it

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par Bjorn Nansen, Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne

Imagine you are planning the funeral music for a loved one who has died. You can’t remember their favourite song, so you try to login to their Spotify account. Then you realise the account login is inaccessible, and with it has gone their personal history of Spotify playlists, annual “wrapped” analytics, and liked songs curated to reflect their taste, memories, and identity.

We tend to think about inheritance in physical terms: money, property, personal belongings. But the vast volume of digital stuff we accumulate in life and leave behind in death is now just as important – and this…

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