Post mortem digital footprint

[Aleandra Felix]

Is there such a thing as a program or site that erases digital footprints after one dies or I need to delete everyhing by myself?

I don't know if I'm overthinking, but honestly I'd feel more comfortable if there wasn't traces left behind. Not on social medias (cause I don't have any) but literally anywhere on internet, like in job hunting sites, language learning stuff, book downloading pages and so on. My dilemma is: I don't want to delete everything beforehand because I don't know if I fail ou chicken out. If I do, I'll have to to register everything again and move on with life. And I don't want to delete, register, delele, register every single time I feel like I'm ready

 

[Broken Chimera]

I wouldn't worry about it. When you die what are they gonna do? But you could back up everything you want to keep on your phone to a SD card then factory reset. Same for the computer, back up to a hard drive then remove it. If you fail you can restore everything.

As for deleting yourself from the net, then you'll have to go through everything you remember signing up for and deleting it. Others might have better ideas for that. Best wishes.

 

[Alec]

I get the wish to not be traced online all through your past, but honeslty I have no idea if a tool for deleting it all exists, mainly I think it's impossible for such a thing to exist. But who knows, what do I know maybe it does.

 

[AnnonyBox]

As far as I'm aware, its next to impossible to have a tool that will do it all for you. There are individual tools that you can get for facebook and twitter, which will use signing in as a sort of deadman switch to keep your account from being deleted, although I have no experience with them. As for job hunting sites such as LinkedIn, I'm not sure.

 

[Brick In The Wall]

You can delete all your accounts, factory reset devices, all sorta stuff. But ultimately there is no such thing as erasing your history entirely. There will always be a digital footprint somewhere. Everything on the internet is captured in realtime and saved forever for anyone to view.

 

[Supersadmommy90]

Honestly this is something that irks me as well. I'm a millennial so it's quite embarrassing to think that everything I've ever said online is literally in some government file somewhere, from the time I was about 13 or so. That is so cringe. Even some things I wrote when I was in my early 20's, that I can remember, I now wholeheatedly cringe at. It would be entirely possible to make some kind of humiliating, mental illness portrait of me post mortem, if a journalist or whoever was so inclined and had the resources at hand. But my character isn't those handfuls of immature, overly revealing, ill-thought out, and just plain retarded posts and things I've made over the years. It would be possible to completely misrepresent me based on what I've written online. Or rather to represent me, but in a very incomplete and unfair way. It's unusual that now only at my age, and in my depression, can I look back on these things understanding their full implications.

 

[LegaliseIt!]

My guess is that within a decade, the type of data that is tracked and stored will be more carefully curated. This isn't necessarily good news, except:
Millennials, some of whom are now in their late 30's, are now realizing that their cringeworthy MySpace from 2006 is not of monetary value to anyone, and they are moving into positions of power in information management.
As this shift occurs, you have a chance to lock down your footprint, and a lot of teen drama isn't going to be profitable to store (it also has climate impact).
Rules around privacy and consent are getting better than they were, and so anthropologists, for example, won't be able to take posthumous internet data without paying for it.
Just my thoughts.

 

[2manyproblems]

My guess is that within a decade, the type of data that is tracked and stored will be more carefully curated. This isn't necessarily good news, except:
Millennials, some of whom are now in their late 30's, are now realizing that their cringeworthy MySpace from 2006 is not of monetary value to anyone, and they are moving into positions of power in information management.
As this shift occurs, you have a chance to lock down your footprint, and a lot of teen drama isn't going to be profitable to store (it also has climate impact).
Rules around privacy and consent are getting better than they were, and so anthropologists, for example, won't be able to take posthumous internet data without paying for it.
Just my thoughts.

I hope there is improvement in this matter from the way it is today. Both culturally and policy wise.

 

[ctbUniquectb]

Unrelated to ctb, I use "deleteme," and don't Facebook. I've also fried my devices and plan to destroy external storage in my last couple minutes. Nice to know I'm not alone in valuing my privacy

 

[Oppenheimer]

All I will do is to leave this site, erase the browser history and format my Porno external HDs.

 

[ctbUniquectb]

All I will do is to leave this site, erase the browser history and format my Porno external HDs.

There's porn that's not paper format!?!