태어난 사람은 결국 죽는다! 삶에 대한 부인할 수 없는 사실. 그러므로 사람들이 마지막 날이 오기 전에 물질적인 것을 어디로 가길 원하는지, 상속자가 누구인지 결정하는 것은 분명하고 실제적입니다. 그러나 이러한 걱정 속에서 우리는 그들의 삶의 다른 부분, 즉 오늘날 우리에게 없어서는 안 될 부분인 디지털 라이프를 잊고 있습니다. 컴퓨터 및 인터넷과 관련된 삶의 일부입니다.
우리 대부분은 이메일 계정, Facebook, Twitter의 소셜 계정을 만들고 Instagram에 사진을 게시하는 데 상당한 시간을 보냅니다. 이러한 모든 계정은 중요한 정보를 저장합니다. 하지만 사후에 온라인에 저장된 온라인 계정, 사진, 영화, 음악이 어떻게 될지 생각해 본 적이 있습니까? 누가 이를 사용하거나 이 계정을 통해 벌어들인 수입은 어떻게 됩니까?
디지털 임프린트와 죽음:걱정해야 할 문제!
슬픈 현실은 개인이 이러한 계정을 간과하고 자신의 계정을 해킹하는 사람이 사용할 수 있는 막대한 양의 데이터를 남겨둔다는 것입니다. 온라인 계정은 어떤 사람들에게는 감정적인 가치가 있지만 나쁜 놈들에게는 심연에 남겨진 정보가 귀중한 자산입니다. 그들은 돈을 벌고, 새로운 신분을 만들고, 다른 온라인 사용자에게 해를 끼치기 위해 정보를 훔칩니다. 이 모든 것을 알고 나면 우리가 간과하는 삶의 무형이지만 중요한 부분에 대해 생각해야 합니다.
지금은 그 결과를 보지 못할 수도 있지만 휴면 계정은 심각한 위험이 있습니다.
누군가가 부도덕한 활동에 사용하는 셀카, 게시물 및 비디오를 원하십니까? 당신이 떠난 후에 그것은 당신에게 어떻게 반영됩니까? 이 일을 그만두면 오래된 편지를 태우는 것처럼 온라인 신원을 삭제하시겠습니까? 온라인 계정이 어떻게 작동하기를 원하십니까?
이러한 모든 질문을 해결하기 위해 주요 웹사이트와 소셜 네트워크는 사망한 계정을 관리하기 위한 정책을 시행하고 있습니다. 이 세상을 떠날 때 온라인 생활을 보호하기 위한 첫 번째 단계는 디지털 유산을 준비하는 것입니다.
디지털 상속에 대해 작업하기 전에 알아야 할 사항
디지털 상속을 계획하기 전에 알아야 할 중요한 사항은 FADA(Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act)입니다. 디지털 소유물을 합법적으로 양도할 권리를 개인에게 보장하는 행위.
기술이 우리 삶의 필수적인 부분이 되어감에 따라 우리가 죽고 나면 버려질 디지털 라이프에 대해 생각하는 것이 중요합니다. 지금까지 소수의 주만이 FADA의 이행을 중요하게 여겼습니다. 그러나 온라인 계정과 같은 법률을 갖는 것이 중요하며 사용자가 사망하면 사이트의 서비스 약관에 위배되므로 해당 콘텐츠를 공유할 수 없습니다. But, over the years, there have been instances where individuals seek access to the online accounts of their deceased loved ones’, that they weren’t able to get due to terms and services.
In such cases FADA or similar laws helps. But till the time the law isn’t implemented users need to take things in their own hands and plan how things should work before their eventual demise.
How to Prepare Digital Inheritance?
What you want to share with your family as part of your digital identity is your personal decision. But planning beforehand is a great idea and is important. Therefore, start by making a list of files stored on your PC, your online accounts, online services you use. Now, that the list is ready it will be easy for you to shortlist the important accounts that you would like to have in your digital legacy.
During this process you may come across to your online purchases and may consider them irrelevant, but you should list them too. As this will help you to know if you want to delete membership now or if you have any ongoing subscriptions that you would like to revoke eventually. This way you can keep things in check when you are there.
Note:In all this don’t make the mistake of sharing passwords on any public records.
To help you prepare in advance, some social media services have taken and initiative. They allow you to appoint a person who can manage your account after your demise, or can take decision on your behalf when you are dead. Others allow family to manage the account even if there is no authorization given, by proving their identity and a proof of your death they allow your family to access your site. Furthermore, there are third-party services that you can use to transfer your digital assets to your heirs after you die.
Options Provided by Social Media Services to Manage Departed User’s Data
We all miss out on reading the terms and conditions mentioned while creating an account. But if you read them you will see few services mentioned in the event of someone’s death. Below we list the options provided by popular social networking sites.
Facebook let’s user choose who they would like to give control of their profile when they pass away. The appointee can either choose to remember the account or delete it permanently. Remembering account allows the heir to share one last post from the account in case they want to post a tribute. They can even change profile picture and cover photo, any posts shared before the account was memorialized cannot be edited or removed. To know more about legacy account, how it works and how to enable it click here.
Twitter collaborates with an authorized point of contact to deactivate the account after the event of death of the Twitter user. Once the family member submits the request for account deletion, he receives an email with set of instructions for providing more details to prove his identity and share deceased users death certificate. To know more about the terms of service click here. Twitter doesn’t allow to post anything or make changes to the deceased account.
LinkedIn and Twitter have the same policy for departed users’ accounts. They will close the account when requested. But it will only work when appropriate documents are provided. To know more about the documents, click here.
Google accounts that include Google+, Gmail, YouTube and Google search history give similar option like Facebook. User can decide regarding their intents for their accounts after they die.
The first step to set up a kill switch is to use the inactive account feature. The second Google detects an absenteeism from the user, the feature is enabled, it will work in accordance with the settings you have applied. Whether it is to delete the account or to share account holder’s information with the appointee.
However, if you forget to set this feature, your loved ones can contact Google to shut down the account or to request data access. But it’s up to Google to handover the data or not. To make things easier just setup inactive account feature.
Yahoo! too allows to close the account officially after your loved one has passed away. But this can be done only by officially verified friends and family. However, you cannot request data access or account access permission. To know more about it click here.
Pinterest and Instagram accounts can also be closed out upon request by friend and family members. To learn more about Pinterest click here. For Instagram click here .
Microsoft email accounts (Hotmail, Live, MSN or Outlook) allow user to setup an appointee request, it is called a Next of Kin request. Once this feature is enabled user can decide what should happen to the account when they die -either the account should be deleted or should be active.
Desktops, laptops and smartphones all have their own policies and they differ from brand to brand. However, if you want that your family should have access to the physical drives it is suggested that you share the password with them or upload all the data on cloud to which they have an access after you die.
Other Options you can use to Share your Digital Inheritance?
Apart from setting up the features offered by various services, you can use third-party applications. Advanced Identity Protector helps to secure data like social security number, card details, bank accounts and other confidential data and using its vault feature you can save the data for your digital inheritance. To give them access to your details create a vault profile, store your details that you want they should have access to after your death and share the vault password. By doing so, you will give them access to your personal details that are added to the vault. To download Advanced Identity Protector click below button.
Undoubtedly, the old fashioned legal services are always helpful, but there is no harm in using third party applications for securing your digital assets. They are hassle free and help you plan, also you can eradicate the risk of giving away your password to someone you don’t trust.
Hope after knowing all this you will work on securing your digital identity, so that it is not misused after your demise. It is not easy to think about your own death but this is the bitter truth of life. Therefore, plan before it’s too late.