VANCOUVER --
New University of British Columbia research has found people want control over their digital data after they die.
The UBC computer science study suggests people also want tools to make it easier to manage that data.
Lead author Janet Chen, who was an undergraduate student in the computer science department, said she became interested in the topic after growing up in the digital revolution.
“All the memories captured of my life are stored digitally. It struck me that many of the platforms I use don’t have great tools to support that data after I’m gone,” Chen said in a news release. “We wanted to look at how to curate this data both while living, and after death.”