My Digital Life – After Your Death
What if I die tomorrow? What will happened to my digital life? Leave it there? Question and questions are there to be answered.
If I happened to die tomorrow, I will get my friend… by now there should be one sucker friend to do this for me. Remove them all.
Here’s some of the quick run down of some popular providers and what happens at each when you die
Facebook
Facebook covers the rights of deceased users in its privacy policy.
Your heirs can request that your account be deleted or “memorialized.” Memorialized profiles restrict profile access to confirmed friends, and allow friends and family to write on the user’s Wall in remembrance. You shouldn’t count on it staying active since anyone can request that it be memorialized by simply notifying Facebook and showing a death certificate or a news article that indicates your death.
Gmail
Gmail provides instructions for gaining access to deceased user’s account in its help documents. They outline the steps to gaining access, which include a death certificate, and email you have received from the account in question and proof that you have legal authority over the estate.
Twitter
Twitter addresses this issue in its help documents:
If we are notified that a Twitter user has passed away, we can remove their account or assist family members in saving a backup of their public Tweets.
Please contact us with the following information:
1. Your full name, contact information (including email address), and your relationship to the deceased user.
2. The username of the Twitter account, or a link to the profile page of the Twitter account.
3. A link to a public obituary or news article.
Yahoo
Yahoo (which owns services like Flickr and Delicious) includes the following paragraph in its terms:
No Right of Survivorship and Non-Transferability. You agree that your Yahoo! account is non-transferable and any rights to your Yahoo! ID or contents within your account terminate upon your death. Upon receipt of a copy of a death certificate, your account may be terminated and all contents therein permanently deleted.
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