Online Legacies Prompt Growing Legal Challenges

NPR | May 14, 2013 10:19 a.m.

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Stan Alcorn

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When we die, we leave the people who knew us with memories. But what about everything we leave online? We leave that in the hands, not of our families, but of big corporations such as Google and Facebook. Reporter Stan Alcorn has more on the growing legal challenges involving digital legacies.