Virginia ... approves measure easing parental access to Facebook accounts of deceased child - The Washington Post The Virginia General Assembly on Monday approved a measure that would make it easier for parents to obtain access to a minor’s Facebook and other social media accounts<http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/va-politics/virginia-family-seeking-clues-to-sons-suicide-wants-easier-access-to-facebook/2013/02/17/e1fc728a-7935-11e2-82e8-61a46c2cde3d_story.html>after the minor’s death. The Senate gave unanimous final approval to a bill that would allow parents, guardians or other legal representatives of a deceased child to gain access to the minor’s online accounts. http://wapo.st/YJLatH Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/va-politics/virginia-general-assembly-approves-measure-easing-parental-access-to-facebook-accounts-of-deceased-child/2013/02/18/0c4c43a6-7a19-11e2-9a75-dab0201670da_story.html See if people are clicking on this link: http://wapo.st/YJLatH+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar and here is a related story that I posted back in early January about this topic Life and Death Online and Facebook: Who Controls a Digital Legacy? - WSJ.com "Alison had pictures, messages and poems written that we wanted to keep to remember her," says Ms. Atkins, 20, an undergraduate at the University of Toronto. But using Alison's passwords violated some of those websites' terms of service, and possibly the law. None of the services allow the Atkins family—or any others—to retrieve the passwords of the deceased. Their argument is that it would violate Alison's privacy. http://on.wsj.com/VptaEO -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
