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What to do with a deceased person's private digital relationships

My mother-in-law died and left us her laptop but it is full of her private messages with men she was dating and I do not know if I should delete them or pretend I never saw them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital inheritance forces unwanted intimacy with the private lives of our deceased loved ones.

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“Where Are You with Data and privacy after death?”

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