Generally, when our loved one dies, his/her belongings
are taken care of. It's important to handle digital content as well as
other content.
However, this would not be possible without the data we
collected after our death, such as photos, recordings, documents, journals,
calendars, our passwords, or our biometric passwords.
Many of us may not have thought about this. For
example, after your death, you may have already nominated someone who will have
the right to your property. This is the practice in banking and real
estate.
But In today's world, your data is your asset. Giving
your digital property to another person in this way is known as a digital
legacy. This process is now being facilitated by the many companies
concerned to transfer the legacy in the form of digital legacy.
Recently, Apple has also started the facility of taking
digital legacy. Apple has a newly introduced 'Legacy Contact' feature in the
latest update of iOS i.e. Version 15.2.
Under this feature, the person in the user's legacy
contact can access those data like messages, photos, notes, and other important
data on the user's iPhone after his/her death.
Google has also introduced a similar feature for every
user. However, this feature is not as specific as Apple. For every user
of Google Accounts, there is an 'Inactive Account Manager feature.
And this feature allows users to deactivate their account
if the account has not been used for a long time. Users will also be able
to choose who else can access their account and their google data according to
their wish.
In the case of Facebook, after the death of the user, the
user's account is changed to another page which is called 'memorize', in which
the profile is locked so that no one else can use it.
Otherwise, you can manage the settings by going to the
settings of Facebook and asking the user to delete his account in advance in
case of his death. Also, in case of his death, Facebook has made an
arrangement to keep 'legacy contact'.
In the case of other social media like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram, the account can be removed. But other users do not have
access to those data.
Similarly, Microsoft has not done any work related to a digital legacy so far.
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