Digital Inheritance: Who will inherit your digital devices or online accounts?

What’s on offer?

Open drop in session in the Central Library in Lancaster.  Information on what happens to your digital proerpty when you die and how to either ensure loved ones can access content or how to safeguard your privacy into the future.

What’s it about?

Do you know if your loved ones can access your computer or mobile phone after you have died, or what happens to your social media or email accounts? Do you want your loved ones to inherit this digital content or do you want to protect your privacy? Join us to discover and explore what may happen to photographs stored on your computer or in the cloud, or to your carefully curated digital music collections. We will show you what can and cannot be inherited, and what steps you may be able to take to assist with the process of digital inheritance or to help future-proof your privacy.

Who’s leading the event?

The event is lead by Dr Sarah Gilmartin of the Lnachaster University Law School

Open to

Public/ adults

Of particular interest to

Of particular interest to anyone who stores digital content on devices or in the cloud and who has not yet planned for how to ensure it is safeguarded and shared, or not, with relatives after death.

Event Booking details

Drop in event any time between 10am and 1pm

Event booking deadline