Digital wills

With digital wills, you can control your online accounts and send death announcements.

More and more people are willing to share every aspect of their private lives online, but few have given serious questions about what will happen to this volume of data when they die.

Status information on Facebook and Twitter, along with email, images, contact information to online banking logos, belongs to the so-called 'digital legacy'.

Perpetu offers digital wills to users - (Photo: Perpetu)

Under current law, if a person does not return information about the online accounts on the will, the family member must seek a court order to access the deceased's account.

The newest company that allows users to create accounts is Perpetu, which is different from most other services that allow members to select exactly which information will be processed.

According to the TechCrunch site, Perpetu also creates unique code for each member, which can be written in real will, facilitating the people who manage their account.

To ensure that the member has died before publishing information, Perpetu will send emails and phone calls to individuals.

If the user does not reply within a week, Perpetu will fulfill the wishes as previously registered.