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    Facebook After Death: Who Owns Your Pages When You Die?

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    Post by day dreamer Tue 05 Feb 2013, 8:12 am

    Facebook After Death: Who Owns Your Pages When You Die?





    By JILIAN FAMA | ABC
    OTUS News – 13 hrs
    ago


    ABC OTUS News - Facebook After Death: Who
    Owns Your Pages When You Die? (ABC News)


    Most people can't live
    without Facebook
    -- but what happens to your Facebook page when you are no longer living? New
    Hampshire and other states are trying to figure that out.



    State Rep. Peter Sullivan has introduced
    legislation to allow the executor of an estate control over the social
    networking pages of the dead. Last week, the New Hampshire House of
    Representatives voted 222-128 to give Sullivan more time to write an amendment
    that begins a study of the issue.

    The bill proposed by Sullivan, a Democrat
    from Manchester, would allow control of someone's Facebook, Twitter, and other
    accounts such as Gmail to be passed to the executor of their estate after
    death.

    According to Sullivan, passage of his
    bill would bridge a gap in policies of social media sites regarding posthumous
    users. He said his bill would protect residents who have suffered loss.

    "This would give the families a sense of
    closure, a sense of peace. It would help prevent this form of bullying
    that continues even after someone dies and nobody is really harmed by it."

    In
    an interview with WMUR    , Sullivan tells the story of a young Canadian girl
    who committed suicide because of bullying. After she died the taunting continued
    on her Facebook page.

    Read
    More About Teens Bullied On Facebook

    "The family wasn't able to do anything;
    they didn't have access to her account." Sullivan said. "They couldn't go in and
    delete those comments, and they couldn't take the page down completely."

    Five other states, including Oklahoma, Idaho, Rhode Island, Indiana and
    Connecticut, have established legislation regulating one's digital presence
    after death. Rhode Island and Connecticut were first, but their bills were
    limited in scope to email accounts, excluding social networking sites.

    According to opponents of Sullivan's bill, contracts and provisions between
    the social media user and the site already lay out what happens to the page once
    the user passes. Opponents say Sullivan's bill is unenforceable and incomplete.
    Some also say the issue would be better suited for federal law.

    Ryan Kiesel, then a state legislator from Oklahoma, sponsored a similar bill
    in 2010 called the Digital Property Management After Death law. Though he
    supports states' efforts to bring light to this issue, saying that it is a good
    way to get the conversation started, he also believes that this is a case that
    should eventually taken up by the federal government.

    "Facebook and other online providers have changed their privacy policies to
    keep up with the times, but we still see a lot of flux within different sites
    like Facebook , Flickr, or Google, for example." Keisel told ABC News. "The
    federal government should pass uniform laws to govern all digital assets because
    it is quite difficult for an estate to have to navigate endless numbers of
    digital policies postmortem."

    Kiesel, who now works as a civil rights activist, compared one's digital
    legacy to the distribution of someone's tangible assets after death.

    Get more pure politics at ABCNews.com/Politics

    "In Oklahoma, if you are administrator of the estate of a deceased person's
    house and you find a box under their bed, you are well within your right to see
    what's inside that box and if property is worth distributing, you should
    distribute it accordingly." Kiesel told ABC News that the same idea goes for
    digital legacy.

    Today marks the ninth Anniversary of the
    launch of Facebook, which currently has over 1 billion active users. That
    number, which has grown from just a million users in 2004, suggests there must
    be an enormous number of Facebook pages that must currently be occupied by
    deceased people.

    Facebook has not completely ignored the growing number of deceased users. The
    site has created a function allowing Facebook pages to become memorials after
    they have died.

    "Please use this form to request the
    memorialization of a deceased person's account," the site reads. "We extend our
    condolences and appreciate your patience and understanding throughout this
    process."

    Memorialization of a Facebook page,
    however, can only be done via online request. And the terms of service for
    Facebook's say that it will not issue login and password information to family
    members of the deceased. The requestor must contact Facebook and request that
    the profile is taken down or
    memorialized





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    http://news.yahoo.com/facebook-death-172350356.html
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