Joe Miller writes: “In the two years since the Eric Rash case, which led to the drafting of a US federal law concerning the data of minors, few countries have issued clear guidance on the rights of families to access their deceased loved ones’ data. And despite the fact that we put more of our lives in the cloud than ever before, few of us are preparing for our digital afterlife. As a result, it is more difficult to bequeath your iTunes library to a loved one than it is to leave your CD collection to them in a shoebox." Read more here. Excerpted from ALA Direct, 10/09/13.
