Authorities Delaware legalized inheritance accounts in social networks

На Last week, the state governor signed закон 345 , which gives a virtual account and digital devices died the same status as that of his usual documents and property - that is, the opportunity to move into the inheritance.



The law is based on the проекте Uniform Law Commission, a nonprofit organization that advocates the unification of laws in all US states.

So instead of caskets with grandmother's photographs future heirs will receive the albums in "Vkontakte". Including closed too - and this is a question: what to do with the content, including, for example, correspondence, which my grandmother would not want to see grandchildren? Very caustically on this topic spoke Anton Spout , comparing Delaware law with the recent initiatives of the State Duma. In particular, he walked on the subject of the relationship with the deceased user is already registered in the user agreement services. And their policy radically different from the newly adopted law: take, for example, the case of 2004, when the Yahoo rejected the request of the family of the deceased Marines to access his mailbox. Good news - the jurisdiction of the law applies only to residents of the state, and does not apply to Internet companies, most of which are located in California.

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