It is possible that a relative or acquaintance has passed away relatively recently, and you have not fallen so far that that person had social networks .Twitter, a Facebook account, a Google account, his LinkedIn profile...Probably more profiles than you have on record.
Related Our presence on the Internet, as well as access to our accounts, can be understood as a type of heritage in whose assignment we think when it is already late.we never think about it.
How can you make sure your heirs can access your social networks ? Of course, are you sure you want your family (parents, siblings, children...) to have access to your chats, the photos you send and the cloud of people you talk to?
The will to transfer your social networks facilitates the procedures for your family
Despite the paradigm shift, from physical to electronic possessions, the will remains the best way to make it clear that we want to leave and who .After all, it has been done for a long time with the bank's electronic money, which are still zeroes and ones.
If we want to make it easy for our family, the ideal is to clarify it in writing and take it to some notarial record , or create a durable record (electronic or physical) that Someone is responsible for bringing to light when we are gone.
Most of us do not express our desires regarding social networks in life and, if we die, our family members may not know what to do with it.Do I leave them open? Do I report to Twitter? Can I look inside? Where do I get the password? Just something simple:
I, ________________, with DNI _______________, and in full use of my mental faculties, have access to all my electronic accounts to my parents, _________________ with DNI _______________ and _________________, with DNI _______________, so that:
And here we have to ask ourselves what we want our family or friends to or cannot do with them .Do you want your partner to have access to the Badoo account through which did you meet? Or that your parents can know that Twitter account B is yours?
We may want a certain web page or Twitter account to remain in place for a while, but we may also want the account to be closed immediately without anyone looking inside let's see what there is, for which nothing better than to inform via testament of our desires.
Maybe we want to be our parents, or a friend, who enters profile by profile to contact the social network and request our withdrawal by sending the death certificate .Maybe because we don't trust who executes the will after our death.
not all services and social networks allow one person to access another's profile.You have to read the terms and conditions well
An interesting option is to announce the death, by previously writing generic or personalized messages that will be displayed in the different applications and social networks as a farewell.However, it should be very clear who or who we want to execute .And, if we hire a payment service from where the capital that covers it will come (obviously it must be ours).
Passwords are a particularly conflicting point, since it is something that we should change frequently and it is not a good idea to record.A password manager could be an alternative, but in principle it is not necessary to point them anywhere., since a will signed by us (and notary) in which we give access permission, together with our death certificate, will be enough for our heirs to enter.
That said, not all services and social networks allow a person to access another's profile, even if they are the heiress of someone who is no longer there.You have to read the terms and conditions well.
The terms and conditions of the different networks
As heirs, we have some alternatives to the electronic property of the decedent : access the account if we have the password, recover the password if we have the registration email or telephone, close it in response to your wills, transfer the information to another place, or maybe manage that service ourselves.
For example, both Amazon Kindle , iTunes , Google Play Music, Netflix, and most services in streaming or downloading data-based content with DRM, will allow us to manage the account in life, but will deny all access to our heirs because in the T&C it establishes that access to these services is personal and non-transferable .If we can ask that the service be canceled, and in some cases even transfer playlists or data, but rarely content.
The social network Twitter allows the heirs to download the published tweets, but not access their private messages or manage the account.They also make it quite clear:
«Twitter: In no case can we provide access to the account to another person, regardless of their relationship with the deceased»
Facebook allows us to even do something like a memorial , as it also lets us do Instagram.Sounds strange, but it is estimated that by 2098 there will be more accounts of deceased people that of people alive if the former remain active.
The Google account can be inherited as long as it appears in the will, and includes services such as Gmail or Drive, but not others such as Play Music or Books, which we have discussed above.
Dropbox and MEGA will allow us to access the contents of the decedent's folder as long as it has given us access to it.
Outlook (Microsoft) makes it easier, offering access to information without entering the T&C of the different applications.
In case we have doubts With some service, we can ask them directly through their channels, although we have to take into account that some service providers may be foreigners and apply a legislation slightly different from ours, or that greatly complicates the procedures.
An interesting alternative is to unequivocally access the mail account with which the different services were opened, since this will help family members to access and fulfill our will, especially if This is to close these accounts, assuming, of course, that we want to give them access to our digital identity (s).
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