Facebook will protect your privacy, when you are dead

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The site's director of global policy management, Monika Bickert, says that Facebook aims to not only be sensitive, but also to respect the wishes of the deceased. After death, accounts are memorialized by default, but everyone is also free to create a "legacy contact" who will be able to mange their account in the event of their death. But Facebook is, it says, also keen to protect the privacy of survivors.

When an account is memorialized, Facebook adds the word "Remembering…" to make it clear that the account is no longer active. Visibility settings are not changed, as Facebook explains: "We don’t remove or change anything. This is our way of respecting the choices someone made while alive."

Users can also opt to have their accounts deleted when they die, but the legacy contact option allows a loved one to download posts and photographs, add messages to the profile of the deceased and, ultimately, delete the account if they want.

I am sure that all those with facebook accounts will sleep easier at night. More at https://betanews.com/2017/08/19/death-on-facebook/

 

[Polymathic]

If a company wants to buy the data of the dead Facebook will sell it in no time.