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This came up before regarding Adsense and death. In the event of a death, the next of kin has to send off a copy of the Death Certificate of the account holder
by babyboy808 18y ago
This came up before regarding Adsense and death. In the event of a death, the next of kin has to send off a copy of the Death Certificate of the account holder to Google, and that account can be transferred. I assume this can be done for most online services.
- bluelu 18y agoYahoo didn't do it, only after a court ordered them to do it. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/25/yahoo_opens_inbox/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/25/yahoo_opens_inbox/)
- paulsilver 18y agoYahoo's policy is different from GMail's. In GMail's terms it says they will hand over the account to the next of kin if you send them the death certificate, or if you have power of attorney over that person. Yahoo won't give access under any circumstances, although that's obviously over-ridden by the court's decision. I found out about this was thinking about social media sites and how they're affected by death recently, which I did as a BarCamp talk and wrote up here: http://www.paulsilver.co.uk/blog/2008/10/death-and-social-media/ http://www.paulsilver.co.uk/blog/2008/10/death-and-social-me... I think there's stuff that should be in web applications that we miss because we don't think about death, i.e. should we have an extra e-mail for the next of kin of a user? (or effective next of kin in this context.)