After Death, a Struggle for Their Digital Remains
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The parents of a combat engineer killed in Iraq struggle to access and preserve his e-mails and a Web site with photos of his adventures. -The Washington Post
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It changed the lifestyles of a  generation but after a lingering death, the last rites have  been sounded for the revolutionary VHS home video format.
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Rip up those obituaries. The club you thought had passed away still has more than enough life left in it. Enough to beat the champions.
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The identification of Thailand's tsunami dead becomes increasingly difficult as bodies decompose.
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The lives of thousands of Holocaust victims are coming to light in a new database that allows anyone with an Internet connection to research the fate of family members and friends sent to Nazi death camps.
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Identity theft concerns are pushing some counties to take down or black out personally identifiable information from their Web sites but the work remains a challenge.
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What is being lost as technology kills off the Renaissance man? Our souls, perhaps? Commentary by Tony Long.
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In the good old days, clutter kings smothered under mountains of their own trash. Like everything else, compulsive hoarding has gone digital. By Jeff Koyen.
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Before me lies the patient, a Gateway computer running Windows 98. It is suffering from extremely clogged Internet arteries, unable to reach the Web. As one of The Washington Post's digital doctors, my task is to nurse the machine back to health so my colleague Kathleen Day can access her e-mail and file stories from home.
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Technological changes and   personal privacy have been at odds ever since modern notions of   privacy emerged more than a century ago.
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A new study that estimates how much digital information the world is generating finds that for the first time, there's not enough storage space to hold it all
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Personal identity has taken on a new meaning in the digital age, where basic facts like your name, address or age are far less important to some people than the collected records of what you were looking at online.
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Obituaries for newspapers are already being written in the United States and much of Europe, with the rise of the Internet and shrinking attention spans listed as the causes of death.
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On the path to a much dreamed of world of Internet access to most of the mankind&#39;s written record, the Google project isn&#39;t the first to attempt to digitize books.
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Technological changes and  personal privacy have been at odds ever since modern notions of  privacy emerged more than a century ago.
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Police investigating the discovery of a virtually naked body in 1971 use new digital technology in a new appeal.
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Identifying human remains found in the disaster zone grows trickier.