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Reporting Death Ethically on Social Media
Earlier this week I re-tweeted a BBC Dorset news story about the sudden deaths of two young people in Dorset. The report gave the location of the place where the deaths had occurred. A short while after clicking on the retweet button I noticed another tweet...
Apple Legacy Contact
As promised in our last blog post in November, details of Apple's new digital legacy feature would be provided as soon as we had them! Apple's ios15.2 is available for you to download now, and included in the update is the long-awaited digital legacy setting, that...
Apple Legacy Contact
If like me, you are waiting for the Apple Legacy Contact feature to be added to the IOS15 update, then you will be pleased to hear that is currently in Beta testing. iDropNews tweeted this week that the feature is currently in Beta testing....
Internet Bench
Do you ever wonder what technology will have been developed in twenty years time? The discovery of an internet bench in a park in Bury St Edmunds has triggered this blog post. I like visiting cathedrals, and have visited Ely and Norwich recently, and was looking...
Be More Aware of Your Digital Self
Imagine being accused of a crime that you did not commit. If you want to make sure this never happens to you then you need to be more aware of your digital self, and your digital footprint. Social Embers has been making the public aware of what can happen to a...
How valuable are your Tweets?
It has was acknowledged by Twitter that tweets have an emotional value, when they backtracked their decision to cull the accounts of deceased people in 2019. Have you ever considered how valuable your tweets might be and if they have a monetary value? This week the...
Cremation and Mercury
An article in The Daily Telegraph is my prompt for writing about mercury levels in the UK. In an article dated 25/01/21 a Daily Telegraph reporter explained that the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) has given The UK Centre for Ecology and...
Brexit and The Right To Be Forgotten
The Right to Be Forgotten Legislation was established by the European Court of Justice in 2014. This legislation gives people who live in the EU the opportunity to apply to search engines, such as Google, to have certain data removed. Although Google claimed to...
An Appropriate Memorial
When my Dad died in May 2020, I created a digital memorial for him. This gave his friends and family a virtual space to remember him, when meeting up physically was difficult, due to the Covid-19 lockdown. The website I created contains pictures, tributes, video and...