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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Politics
Ritesh Chugh

Upon my death, delete: how to plan your digital legacy

A pen and a mobile phone rest on top of a will document
While physical documents and photographs are relatively easy to access when someone dies, logging in to their online accounts can be more complicated. Photograph: DNY59/Getty Images/iStockphoto

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.

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.

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