{"id":8349,"date":"2017-08-18T20:21:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T20:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/how-facebook-prioritizes-privacy-when-you-die.html"},"modified":"2017-08-18T20:21:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T20:21:06","slug":"how-facebook-prioritizes-privacy-when-you-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/how-facebook-prioritizes-privacy-when-you-die.html","title":{"rendered":"How Facebook prioritizes privacy when you die"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Should your parents be able to read your Facebook messages if you die? Facebook explained why it won\u2019t let them in a post in its Hard Questions<\/a> series today about social networking after death.<\/p>\n

Facebook admits it doesn\u2019t have all the answers, but it has come up with some decent solutions to some issues with what it calls Memorialized Profiles and a \u201cLegacy Contact.\u201d<\/a> When you pass away, once Facebook is informed, the word \u201cRemembering\u201d appears above your name on your profile and no one else can sign in to your account.<\/p>\n

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The Legacy Contact is a friend you select in your Manage Account Settings<\/a> while you\u2019re still alive, though they\u2019re not informed until your profile is memorialized. They\u00a0can pin a post atop your profile, change your profile pic, respond to friend requests or have your account removed. But Facebook explains they can\u2019t log into your account, change or delete old posts, remove friends or read your messages.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Facebook won\u2019t allow parents or anyone else to read your messages after you die. That\u2019s because \u201cIn a private conversation between two people, we assume that both people intended the messages to remain private,\u201d writes\u00a0Monika Bickert, Facebook\u2019s Director of Global Policy Management. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act and Stored Communications Act may also prohibit it from sharing private communications even with parental consent.<\/p>\n

Facebook also tries to minimize the emotional impact of losing a loved one by no longer sending birthday reminders about writing on their wall. But there are still plenty of opportunities for hurt feelings. Facebook\u2019s On This Day feature and others can surface old content from when that person was still alive, creating an unexpected experience of having to think about their death.<\/p>\n

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The company has built features to enhance empathy with its users, allowing them to avoid unnecessarily seeing their exes on the app after a break-up<\/a>. But it\u2019s tough to know what will be a sweet nostalgic reminder and what will be a heart-wrenching spiral into the past.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s important is that Facebook is at least thinking and talking about these issues. Now at 2 billion users, Facebook has become a ubiquitous utility that impacts every phase of our lives<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s a\u00a0deep sense of responsibility in every part of the company,\u201d says Facebook CPO Chris Cox. \u201cWe\u2019re getting to the scale where we have to get much better about understanding how the product has been used.\u201d<\/p>\n

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