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    Who owns your data when you're dead?

    The Economist
    July 19, 2013 8:12AM ET
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    After we die, our bodies are reduced to dust or ash, through burial or cremation. The fate of the digital corpuses we leave behind is rather more complicated. Before the advent of internet-hosted storage and services, your digital remains would have…


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