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  • Protecting your digital assets after death

    Thanks to an endless stream of gadgets many of us are in heaven when it comes to technology. ...

  • Preparing for the digital afterlife

    How should we deal with web users' Facebook, PayPal and other accounts when they log off for good? ...

  • Legacy Locker: Death Goes Digital

    We spend a lot of time protecting our online identity ...

  • Digital will for Internet passwords

    Most of us spend hours at the computer, emailing, paying bills or visiting social network sites like Twitter or Facebook. ...

  • Interview with Jeremy Toeman, Co-Founder Of Legacy Locker

    A couple of years ago, my grandmother passed away. She was 94-years-old but fairly Internet-savvy. ...

  • As I See It: After You're Gone (.com)

    My wife's grandmother was born while the Ottoman Empire was still in business--which is to say a long time ago. ...

  • La mort, et après?

    Si vous perdiez la vie demain, qu'arriverait-il à vos réseaux sociaux, au contenu que vous avez partagé et à votre identité numérique que vous avez forgée? ...

  • User tot - Account lebt

    Die meisten Menschen führen ihr Leben mittlerweile auch online. Aber was geschieht nach ihrem Tod mit den Accounts bei sozialen Netzwerken oder Bezahlportalen wie PayPal? ...

  • When e-memories must expire

    Everyone has memories they’d like to forget. Remember those times when you carved a heart on the bark of the tree and then fervently wished there was a way to make it go away? ...

  • Virtual Afterlife: Managing Your Digital Assets

    For Denise Gallagher, the memory of her daughter Lacey will always be of the way she last saw her ...

  • Password Protection

    We've all got an line accounts for everything from email and Facebook to E-bay and Paypal. Not to mention all the bills we pay online, but have you ever stopped to wonder what would happen to that online information when you die?...

  • New services promise online life after death

    Your husband, an avid gamer and techie, dies of a heart attack, leaving his vast online life ­-- one you don't know much about ­-- in limbo.

  • Death Often Brings Disputes Over Online Lives

    For many people, keeping the memory of a deceased loved one alive through some form of online memorial is a source of comfort.

  • Get a Life! Er, Death...

    Some people seem to live online – which is causing unforeseen complications when they really die.

  • Site Passes On Your Passwords After Death

    CBS5 San Francisco - video

  • Now That I’m Dead, Who’s Going to Update My Facebook Status?

    Ever wonder what happens to your Facebook account after you die? Someone does...

  • Legacy Locker Frees Digital Assets from Password Purgatory

    Passwords and usernames are the worst part of digital living. They're even worse when it comes to digital death. All those multiple accounts get locked in password purgatory -- and sometimes worse...

  • R.I.P. zombie online accounts

    For people who live most of their life online, a new service is offering a tidy virtual burial when they die...

  • Life insurance for your passwords: Legacy Locker

    Legacy Locker simply backs up the passwords and access codes to your online accounts. When you die, it gives that information to the people you designate...

  • Legacy Locker: An Online Will For Your Digital Life

    For many of us, the internet is quickly becoming a comprehensive digital archive of our lives, housing our photo albums, documents, correspondence, and video clips. Unfortunately, when someone passes away, the mechanisms for transferring this information to family members are archaic...

  • Jeremy Toeman Finds a Traditional Business Model in a Web 2.0 World

    Well-known PR pro Jeremy Toeman has started a business you'd hardly recognize as part of an era of YouTube clones, yet it is dependent on that very world of free, prolific, user generated content. Legacy Locker is a new service that stores your passwords to important services like email and social networks and delivers them to a caretaker in the event of your death...

  • When you pass on, Legacy Locker passes on your online information

    Everyday, a little more of my life goes online. My pictures are there, my videos are there, my contacts are there, I do my banking there, all of my various email messages — the list goes on...

  • Legacy Locker: An Online Will For Your Digital Life

    For many of us, the internet is quickly becoming a comprehensive digital archive of our lives, housing our photo albums, documents, correspondence, and video clips. Unfortunately, when someone passes away, the mechanisms for transferring this information to family members are archaic...

  • Legacy Locker preserves digital assets for posterity

    With an increasing amount of our lives moving not just onto the computer but onto the cloud, we are all faced with problems that would have never come up years ago. The new online service Legacy Locker is attempting to solve one such problem...

  • LegacyLocker Handles Your Online Passwords in the Event of Death

    Today we have found another site that wants to help you manage your online identity in the event of death. The site is called Legacy Locker and I like the concept...

  • An Afterlife For Your Online Accounts

    A startup called Legacy Locker is launching today with a weighty mission: helping folks plan ahead–really ahead, one hopes–by recording login info for online accounts such as e-mail, social network, and photo sharing sites, and specifying who should be given access to them in event of the Legacy Locker user’s death...

  • Jeremy Toeman Finds a Traditional Business Model in a Web 2.0 World

    Well-known PR pro Jeremy Toeman has started a business you'd hardly recognize as part of an era of YouTube clones, yet it is dependent on that very world of free, prolific, user generated content. Legacy Locker is a new service that stores your passwords to important services like email and social networks and delivers them to a caretaker in the event of your death...

  • Legacy Locker passes on your passwords after you die

    The thing about life is, well … it ends. (There's a morbid thought for a Tuesday.) And unless you plan ahead, you might end up taking all your passwords—the ones protecting your e-mail accounts, online photo albums, Facebook profile, and so on—with you. Enter Legacy Locker...

  • Your Web 2.0 Beneficiary

    In late February, Stephanie Bemister, sister of deceased journalist William Bemister, contacted consumer-rights blog the Consumerist with a problem: she wanted to remove her brother's profile from Facebook, but the social-networking site would not remove it because its policy is to maintain the profile as a memorial...

  • Startup Plans Online Wills to Protect Digital Assets

    Estate planning took on a new meaning Tuesday as a San Francisco-based startup announced plans to offer an online will of sorts. Legacy Locker is tapping into a new segment of estate planning by offering to manage a person's digital assets once they die...

  • Life Insurance For Your Passwords

    Legacy Locker simply backs up the passwords and access codes to your online accounts. When you die, it gives that information to the people you designate...

  • Legacy Locker: Online Safety Deposit Box For Digital Assets

    A new backup and storage service, Legacy Locker, aims to serve customers who want their loved ones to have access to their digital assets after they die...

  • Who Will Manage Your Online Life When You Die?

    A new service is launching in April with the goal of solving the problem of what happens to your online accounts after you die...

  • Writing Your Will Is A Thing of the Past: Introducing Legacy Locker

    Seems like everything is becoming technology-based nowadays. Consider for a moment what would happen to your online accounts/assets if you were to pass away...

  • Locking Up Your Legacy

    Legacy Locker is a safe, secure repository for your digital property that lets you grant access to online assets for friends and loved ones in the event of death or disability...

  • Legacy Locker Insures Your Passwords in the Event of Your Death

    Somewhat of a morbid post here, but I've been wondering how to ensure that my wife can access our bank accounts and so forth in the event of my death. I keep track of all that stuff, but she does not. Legacy Locker is a new site aims to distribute all that digital information in the event of your death, solving my problem, and I'm sure the problem of others...

  • Rest In Peace - Your Online Legacy Will Continue

    Just when you thought you had seen it all, along comes Legacy Locker. This service securely stores all a user’s online login-in data in case they die or are disabled...

  • Chegou o testamento "online" para a sua vida digital

    Se é um adepto das novas tecnologias e tem um mundo "online" tão rico como o seu mundo real, decerto já se interrogou muitas vezes o que acontecerá aos seus blogs, à sua página no Facebook, aos seus álbuns de fotografias, aos vídeos, aos contactos, à correspondência e a mil e uma coisas que deixou espalhadas pela Internet com o seu cunho pessoal...

  • Why your online passwords can outlive you

    Legacy Locker aims to solve the problem of people dying and their loved ones being unable to access their online accounts and services without having their passwords. In some cases this can be awkward: what happens to your Facebook account after you die...

  • Part I: Legacy Locker cares for online stuff after death

    Legacy Locker is like a last will and testament for your digital stuff. Your passwords. Your photos. Your videos. Your blog. Your Facebook account...

  • Part II: Legacy Locker cares for online stuff after death

    Legacy Locker is like a last will and testament for your digital stuff. Your passwords. Your photos. Your videos. Your blog. Your Facebook account...

  • New Web Service Keeps Your Passwords Until You Die

    Legacy Locker, a new online service announced Tuesday that allows people to securely store usernames, passwords and other access information for all their digital assets — from Facebook and MySpace accounts to Gmail and PayPal — and pass that information along to beneficiaries in the event of their death...

  • Remains of the Day

    When this one goes live, you're loved ones will get the keys to your online accounts—kind of like a will that comes with a key to a safety deposit box, except this key is a password to your bank account...

  • Where Does Data Go When You Die?

    An new and ever-so-slightly morbid online venture known as Legacy Locker has been launched that will automatically put your online affairs in order when you finally, and inevitably, kick the bucket...

  • Legacy Locker passes on your digital stuff when you die

    We are all going to kick the bucket. That's been true for, well, forever. But what's new in this digital age is how much stuff we will leave online when our day comes.

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