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They compare data protection services on three of the leading platforms in the web ecosystem.
They evaluate the accessibility that family members have when trying to access the account of a deceased person.
They emphasize the importance of facilitating the virtual legacy of a person to their loved ones.
In accordance with AndroidAuthority, Google handles death better than any other storage platform, giving the opportunity to rescue the virtual legacy of the account and transmit the data of the deceased to their family and friends.
The company compared the most popular online services that offer mail, messages, photo cloud, documents and many other tools, and the three finalists were Google, Facebook and Apple.
Among the factors that were evaluated is the ease with which loved ones can claim access to an account, because although security policies protect them to prevent misuse of information, when it comes to a death it is important to release the virtual legacy of users, such as bank accounts, insurance and memories.
Google, the analytics leader
linked to Inactive account manager (IAM), the company allows people to be notified and data to be shared when a user is inactive for a certain period in any of its services.
If you don’t log in, for example, to your Gmail account for three, six, 12 or 18 months, Google will try to contact you by email or SMS and, if no response is received, notify one of the 10 registered trusted contacts.
Inactive account manager allows you to notify people and share data with them if you have been inactive for a certain period of time.
In addition, the user can decide which contact will download what information and even give them permission to delete the account.
Therefore, the importance of configuring the AMI, because in the event of death, the relatives must send a request to access the data with official identification and a death certificate.
Facebook, in second place
Similar to the previous strategy, users of the social network can designate a legacy contact on death, view posts, and configure account settings.
And although that person will not be able to log in directly, they will have the option to memorize or completely delete the data.
In addition, a memorial account may be requested, with proof of death such as an obituary or a death certificate; it can share profile pictures and post a tribute, but the heir will not have the ability to exchange or review Facebook Messenger chats.
Apple at the bottom of the list
legacy contacts they were enabled for devices running iOS 15.2, iPadOS 15.2, and macOS 12.1, all of which were released just a few months ago.
Friends and family can get into Apple ID data, including photos, messages, notes, files, apps, and/or backups, but they can’t get to keychain, music, or purchased subscriptions.
To request access to their data, a legacy contact must still provide an access key and death certificate to Apple.
Although it would be thought that this system would speed up the process in the event of death, this is not the case. To request access to the data, you must provide an access key and an official death certificate, and to try to delete the account, you must access the Apple ID that you are looking to recover, as well as your own.
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