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Who Can Access Your Digital Accounts When You Die?

February 15, 2012

This article surveys the various legal issues involved in access to and rights over your digital accounts (such as e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter) when you die.  The article examines the roles of federal legislation, individual websites' and services' privacy policies, estate planning documents, and more.  As the article explains, given the volume of valuable assets stored in the data cloud, developing a plan to deal with these assets after death is becoming more and more important. 

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Who Can Access Your Digital Accounts When You Die?

AUTHOR

Gavin Johnson

Gavin Johnson