Google has launched a tool that lets users decide what happens with their email, Google Plus and other accounts after they die — or become inactive online for any other reason.
Called “inactive account manager,” the feature lets users of Google’s services tell the company what to do with email messages and other data if their account becomes inactive.
For example, Google says, users can choose to delete their data after three, six or 12 months of inactivity. Or they can choose specific people to receive the data.
Besides Gmail and Google Plus, other services covered include YouTube, the photo-sharing service Picasa and Blogger. Google Inc., based in Mountain View, Calif., says it will warn users through a secondary email address or a provided phone number before taking any action.
(AP)
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Who cares and why does yeshiva world need to post this on their website?
Sometimes important yet personal info is contained and google’s initiative is dealing with how to handle this responsibly
Yosef stern, welcome to 2013. Probably at least 90% of the yeshiva guys I know have email and most of them use Gmail which is one of the more Kosher email sites out there. (Yahoo is evil)
Yosef Stern-
You mean why would anyone in the yeshiva world need to get into a deceased fundraiser’s e-mail to find the lists of people and their contact info who have been supporting his yeshiva\organization for decades? Or a widow who has no idea what the passwords to her bank accounts are b/c they’re in her deceased husband’s e-mail?….I can’t imagine how this could be useful for frum people!
Hey- I don’t agree with everything posted on this site. But, if it this bothers you so much, start your own Yeshivsh News blog.
Enough said.
@ yosef stern
After 120, if someone has info in his email that is confidential, most normal people don’t want that shared or hacked into. If it just sits there forever, there is a chance for someone to access it. After 120, would you want someone to get into ur email’s and read it; I wouldnt ………….
Yosef Stern
I hate to break this to you
But Yeshiva World subscribers who have Google accounts eventually go to the Oilam Hoemes – like everybody else