So much of our lives are online, but what happens when we die?

Peaches Geldof lived her life on Twitter — so what happens now to her words and pictures? Louise Roseingrave looks at our digital legacies.

SO much of our lives are now played out online, but what happens after we die? We leave a digital legacy. A technological interface to provide comfort to our friends and relatives, in the form our pictures, music, emails and thoughts via Twitter, Apple, Gmail, Microsoft and Facebook.

But unlike the assets of our estate, dealt with by an executor of a will, our online activities have no actual value and therefore do not form part of a traditional will. We interact online having agreed to the terms and conditions of individual applications and websites.