On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:04, Udhay Shankar N<[email protected]> wrote: > It got me wondering, what are the policies at various sites, such as > yahoo and google, for account-holders who die? What happens to their data?
The parents writing in actually helped with Google Mail for one friend,[1] and with another a close friend knew the password to the Facebook account, and the family decided not to close it. >From the planning perspective (by Cory Doctorow): <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/30/data-protection-internet> [1] AFAIK, they didn't have to follow the process outlined in: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/013645.html
