Death in the Time of Digital

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,
advisor, Sasin; founding partner, digiAindra co ltd
marketing & communications chief, Sasin

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100,000+ tweets sent
200m+ emails sent
every minute 24x7Sharing…
https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics., html http://mashable.com/2012/06/22/data-created-every-minute/ , http://www.nathanlustig.com/2012/06/06/2-89m-facebook-users-will-
die-in-2012-580000-in-the-usa/ http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/raising-the-dan.jpg http://scoop.intel.com/what-happens-in-an-internet-minute/
70+ hours of vdo; 1.3m+ views
6m+ pageviews, .7m+ pieces of content,
3,500+ pics uploaded
45,000+ apps downloaded
(Apple only)
2m+ searches
3,000+ pics uploaded

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https://secure.flickr.com/photos/mexicoguru/4771985870/ mexicoguru Jane Onstott

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/dolmansaxlil/5550636208/sizes/l/in/photostream/ by Sharon Drummond/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/8725928@N02/7223083348/sizes/l/in/photostream/ by janwillemsen

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http://ilmuromag.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2013/05/andy-warhol-1986-photo-robertc2a0mapplethorpe.jpg
http://branditative.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/picture4-6.png
http://artobserved.com/artimages/2008/10/andy-warhol-marilyn.jpg
I always thought
I’d like my own
tombstone to be
blank.
No epitaph and no
name.
Well, actually, I’d
like it to say
‘figment’.

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http://ilmuromag.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2013/05/andy-warhol-1986-photo-robertc2a0mapplethorpe.jpg
http://branditative.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/picture4-6.png
http://artobserved.com/artimages/2008/10/andy-warhol-marilyn.jpg
This will give Warhol the pleasure
of knowing that he is still plugged in
& turned on

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Part 2
Part 3
Part 1 Digital zombies

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http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzA2LzIxL2RiL3RoZW5hbmRub3cuNWM2MTMuZ2lmCnAJdGh1bWIJMTIwMHg5NjAwPg/1a993bdd/26f/then-and-now.gif
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you're_a_dog

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…on the internet, nobody
knows you’re dead….

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https://secure.flickr.com/photos/randychico/7855015016/sizes/k/in/photostream/ by My name is Randy
digital living dead
animated by the posts of their friends,
brands,
& things they “liked” in life

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http://mashable.com/2009/10/25/facebook-reconnect/ http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/406981.article http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/raising-the-
dan.jpg http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/12/08/a-simple-way-to-improve-facebook-suggestions/http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/12/08/a-simple-way-to-
improve-facebook-suggestions/

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Facebook zombies
http://consumerist.com/2009/02/20/facebook-wont-let-you-remove-dead-relatives-page-per-policy/
http://news.investors.com/photopopup.aspx?path=IT_130219.jpg&docId=644705&xmpSource=&width=594&height=397&caption=Facebook+CEO+Mark+Zuckerberg+talks+at+a+2
011+event+about+the+site%26%2339%3bs+Timeline+feature%2c+but+now+the+company+and+other+social+sites+are+wrestling+with+the+question+of+what+to+do+with+subscr
ibers%26%2339%3b+data+after+they+die. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/08/how-roger-ebert-managed-his-digital-afterlife/67986/
“ I have a problem…I am heartbroken, angry
& am lost for words. My brother…died very
suddenly mid November…
He had a Facebook page…he had posted a
lot of personal information…
I emailed their ‘privacy’ division, attached a
copy of his death certificate & asked them
politely to remove his membership.
Facebook refused…
Sent to Consumerist website, 2009
20 year old suicide,
uploads pic to his FB, with the gun in his
mouth…
Takes a month, & unrelenting complaints
from his mother to get it removed

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https://www.docusign.net/MEMBER/PowerFormSigning.aspx?PowerFormId=91e28b6c-bc93-47ed-8d1e-1f81083529d6

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http://mashable.com/2013/02/13/facebook-after-death/
1. nobody reports you as dead…you become a
digital zombie
2. someone reports you dead & your account
is ‘memorialized’
3. someone reports you dead & asks your
account be closed
4. someone gains access to your account…
5. someone reports your death, in advance

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Part 1
Part 3
Part 2
Digital zombies
Digital assets

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http://digitaldeathday.com/
Conference for Digital Death Day, asked
“Where does your data go when you
die?”

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After you die, who gets your digital assets?
• all your
• all your
• all your
• all your
• all your
• all your
• all your
• to use all your internet
http://www.justinellsworth.net/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4164669.stm http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-denies-family-access-to-dead-marines-e-mail/2100-1038_3-
5500057.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplemattfish/3188379971/sizes/o/in/photostream/http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplemattfish/3188379971/sizes/o/in/photostream/

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5500057.html
“each Marine gets a
crate or large boxes to
pack stuff in…
Marine spokesman,
Brian Driver, 2005
whatever's in there
gets sent back. Period

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5500057.html
father wanted to
create a memorial
to his son
using e-mails
exchanged while in
combat

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https://support.google.com/mail/answer/14300?hl=en#1
Google’s process for accessing a dead person’s email
account, used to be v complex, required snailmail or FAX,
but right after we did the 1st version of this presentation
they streamlined their procedures…
could Google be spying on us?

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https://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/program_policies.html
http://lifehacker.com/5890672/what-happens-to-my-gmail-account-when-i-die
We hope that this new feature will
enable you plan your digital afterlife…
You can tell us what to do
with your Gmail messages &
data from several other
Google services if your
account becomes inactive
for any reason...

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,
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/dougbelshaw/4360008898/sizes/o/ dougbelshaw
you definitely can’t take them with you…
…and you can’t leave them either

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• clean out digital assets while you can
• do you really need all of your email attachments?
• cleaning out FB messages takes a LONG time,
• have a trusted aide to do it for you
• use different usernames/passwords for
different classes of assets
• do you want one person to access all?
• use TrueCrypt or similar
• make sure credentials are stored physically
& clearly marked
• consider a digital executor

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https://twitter.com/LaticiaD/status/363228962333278208, https://twitter.com/Phobophilia/status/363133328334913540 https://twitter.com/JayR515/status/363145961263988737
https://twitter.com/madfashionista/status/363139516510388224 https://twitter.com/ATPhotodesign/status/363134258191138817
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/08/how-roger-ebert-managed-his-digital-afterlife/67986/
Roger Ebert
(1942 –2013)

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,.

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http://legacylocker.com/

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http://www.deathswitch.com/

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http://tweeji.com/

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Liveson.org

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http://ifidie.net/
IfIDie.com
Is that IF???

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http://www.deadsoci.al/
DeadSocial…where do they get
these names?

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/suzannelong/6274908159/ by suzannelong suzannelong http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/steve-jobs-afterlife-known-by-buddhist-
cult_n_1818716.html

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Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Digital zombies
Digital assets
Fun death apps

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“Oxford University Museum of Natural History ... dodo - dead apparently” by FunkMonk
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxford_Dodo_display.jpg

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