How do technology companies deal with their users’ accounts when this person moves to another life, you may find it bleak, but you must work for your afterlife, and the truth is, there is no definitive answer because each company has its own policies and rules that differ from other companies, and for this we will learn in the following lines about the fate of Our social accounts after our death, and how do the family have access to our data? Camel Facebook and Google with the digital legacy of deceased people.
What happens to your Facebook account after you die
Allow Facebook The user assigns a 'Recommended Contact' which is your authorization to someone else to manage your account after your death and the bequest contact can start making decisions about your account as soon as you notify Facebook of your death and the account is memorialized.
The recommended contact can do the following:
- Accepting friend requests for the deceased's account
- Writing and pinning a post to the profile
- Submit a request to permanently delete the account
- Change your cover photo and profile picture
The recommended contact cannot:
- Read messages about the deceased's account
- Account login
- Send new friend requests
- Delete users from friends list
How to permanently delete your account on Facebook after death?
Facebook also allows you to delete your account after death if you do not want your data to remain available after death, but this feature must be activated in advance through the following steps:
- Go to Settings & Privacy
- Then tap Settings
- And then the commemorative settings
- Scroll down and tap Request to delete account after death
- Click Delete after death to confirm.
And so as soon as someone reports Facebook Upon your death, the social network will permanently remove your account, which means removing all your posts, comments, photos, videos, messages and information.
What happens to your Google account after your death?
Allow Google The user sets up an Inactive Account Manager feature where the user chooses a trusted contact and when the account is inactive for a specified period of time (Google looks for signs of inactivity such as using Gmail or logging in to any company service), the trusted contact is notified.
The period of inactivity can be set to 3, 6, 12 or 18 months and during this time, Google will send an email and SMS in order to reach you and when there is no activity or response from your side, the trusted contact will be notified (can set 10 Contacts for each contact (email and phone number to verify) that your account is inactive.
If you choose to share your data with trusted contacts, it will send Google An email to them with a message that the account holder is no longer active and a link that when they click on it, they will be able to download the data you agreed to share with them.
How to permanently delete your Google account after death?
You can also choose to self-delete your Google account after your death by following these steps:
- Go to your Google account
- On the left, choose Data and Personalization
- Scroll down to the option “Download-Delete-Make a Plan”
- Click on Create a plan for your account and then click on “Start”
- Specify the time of inactivity (3, 6, 12 or 18 months)
- Specify a phone number and email to notify you before taking any action
- Then enable the "Delete my inactive account" feature
- Next, click Review Plan and then Confirm Plan to Save.
Thus, your Google account will be automatically removed after your chosen period of account inactivity has passed, and you should know that activating the feature to automatically delete account after death on Google means that trusted contacts will have three months to download any data they are allowed to access before Delete the account forever.
NB: If you do not have an inactive account manager, this means that your family will need to submit a request to Google to access your data and in order to prove their connection to you, they will provide an ID and death certificate with a careful review from Google However, the search giant will not provide them with passwords or login details and therefore, may not have access to your data forever.
What happens to your Apple account after death?
Until recently, it wasn't possible, but now, let me Camel Its users bequeathed their digital legacy on their devices starting with iOS 15.2 where it added a new feature known as Inherit Contact, and by choosing a family member to be the inheriting contact, this will ensure that they will be able to access most of your data.
The data that the inherited contact can access includes the following:
- Pictures
- Videos
- Applications
- Contacts
- Reminders
- Messages
- Notes
- Call log
The data that the inherited contact cannot obtain includes:
- Music, movies, and books purchased by the user
- Payment information and cards saved in Apple Pay
- Promotions, purchases and subscriptions
- Credit card numbers
- Wi-Fi passwords
- The name and password of the Safari browser
After death, the inheriting contact needs to provide the death certificate and the access key you created for it when choosing it as the inheriting contact.
If an inheriting contact is not specified, your family will need to present some conditions imposed by them Camel The legal representative of the deceased, including the following:
- Name and Apple ID of the deceased person
- The name of the relative requesting access to the accounts
- The deceased is the user of all accounts linked to the Apple ID
- The applicant is the legal person representing the deceased or his agent or heir
- The court asks Apple to help provide access to the deceased's information
Once you meet the conditions and requirements that the iPhone maker needs, you can talk to Apple technical support and they will provide the assistance you need quickly to access the data of the deceased.
Which is better: Facebook, Google or Apple?
In terms of ease of access to the digital legacy and the data of the deceased person, Google comes out on top because the requirements it imposes are reasonable and it allows up to 10 contacts to access the data while Facebook supports only one contact and perhaps Apple comes last because the conditions it asks are more difficult and stringent It is not strange for a company like Apple, which sees that privacy is very important and therefore imposes strong obstacles in order to ensure the preservation of the data of its users and prevent anyone from accessing it.
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