Let’s say one morning you wake up and you’re dead.<\/p>\n
Google has your emails for the past decade, your YouTube videos, your Google Voice account, your Google Wallet, your search history, your Adsense account, your building models for Google 3D, your Chrome account with your bookmarks.<\/p>\n
Your relatives show up to bury your corpse and split up your st00f. What’s a Google to do at this point? Is it up to a judge? What if five years ago in an email you called your mother in law a shrew? Is your email private after you die? What if the need to find the pass code that opens your vault of gold bars?<\/p>\n
Surely as more and more Googlers cease to operate nominally, this becomes more and more of a distraction to Google. Today Google made an attempt to address this<\/p>\n
http:\/\/m.washingtonpost.com\/business\/technology\/google-releases-tool-to-deal-with-your-data-after-death\/2013\/04\/11\/463e09a4-a2d3-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html<\/p>\n
If you’re dead though, do you really care? If someone close to you dies, would you read their email?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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