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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 What happens to your data when you die? An individual’s digital footprint will long outlive them. That presents many quandaries. The Economist Digital footprint 10 July, 2024 | 675 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ Franz Kafka died 100 years ago in literary obscurity. He had instructed his friend Max Brod to burn his unpublished works. Fortunately for generations of readers, Brod did not; he believed Kafka to be among the greatest writers of his time and instead edited and published his late friend’s writing. In other words, Brod decided that Kafka’s stories belonged not to the late author, but to the literate public. Brod’s conundrum echoes today. People live online and generate far more data than they did just a decade ago. Everyone leaves digital traces behind when they die, either deliberately, in the form of social-media profiles and posts, or incidentally, with web searches, phone-location data, banking records and so
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