<p>Alison Atkins died on July 27 at age 16. Online, her family is losing its hold on her memory.</p><p>Three days after the Toronto teen lost a long battle with a colon disease, her sister Jaclyn Atkins had a technician crack Alison's password-protected MacBook Pro. Her family wanted access to Alison's digital remains: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts that were her lifeline when illness isolated her at home.</p><p>"Alison had pictures, messages and poems written that we wanted to keep to remember her," says Ms. Atkins, 20, an undergraduate at the University of Toronto.</p><p>But using Alison's passwords violated some of those websites' terms of service, and possibly the law.</p><p><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20130105/life-and-death-online-who-controls-a-digital-legacy/">Keep reading...</a></p>