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2.6. What If?world where the threat of this outage is being taken for real by peopleand organizations, much like the threat of an earthquake or the threat ofa tsunami. What impact would such a threat have on our well-being andin our financial lives?• What would you like to happen to your data when you pass away?Assume a world where people keep lots, if not all, of their activitieson-line. Assume that most of their photographs are on-line, most oftheir correspondence is on-line, most of their videos are on-line. Summerholiday pictures, falling-in-love letters, the first-day at school video, thepicture of the tooth given to the tooth-fairy; all are on-line. To survivethe occasional disk crash and the inevitable hardware upgrade, peoplewould probably store their data in large-scale data centers, currentlygoing by the name “the cloud.” What options would we like to givepeople with respect to their data collection when they pass away? Willpeople be able to delete it? Will they be able to leave it as an inheritanceto their children, much like they leave their family photo albums today?Will they be able to donate it to humankind, possibly for research? Whatsecurity and privacy challenges would such a world create?17