Working as a kind of online "will," the newly-launched Legacy Locker site provides for post-death transfer of a person's digital data to his/her surviving family and friends. With the site being launched, the service will go live within a few weeks.

Legacy Locker aims to benefit from the noticeable vacuum in the sphere of mechanisms for transferring the life-long digital treasures of a deceased person. With the services towards this end being fairly limited, such a transfer of digital information often necessitates the involvement of lawyers; and sometimes, it might simply be impossible due to the Terms of Service of websites.

But, not any more! Using the Legacy Locker site, customers have to put in their login credentials to the web services they access; and, after their death, this information is disseminated to their family-members and acquaintances, depending on what has been selected for whom.

Legacy Locker is not just a practical means of transferring vital information - like online bank accounts - after a person dies, but also for providing others an access to things like social networks. The service allows the designated people to either properly take down the late user's account or notify others of the user's demise.

All this, not for free though! Legacy Locker is a premium service, which would cost a yearly charge of $30, or a one-time charge of $300!