Who has access to digital heritage?

Published on: July 12, 2018 / update from: September 13, 2018 - Author: Konrad Wolfenstein

survey conducted on behalf of WEB.DE and GMX would sue online services for the release of the data of deceased people. In such a case, the BGH has now decided that the Facebook account belongs to the inheritance. The parents of a 15-year-old who was hit by a subway train in 2012 want to use the daughter's Facebook messages to find out whether their daughter's tragic death was an accident or suicide. The social network has so far denied access citing data protection reasons. The judge's ruling could be groundbreaking for how we deal with digital heritage in the future. Regardless, people should delve deeper into this issue. In the survey mentioned at the beginning, only eight percent of those surveyed said that they had stored access data for all active online accounts with trusted people.

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