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Your Digital Legacy: States Grapple with Protecting Our Data After We Die

Should executors be allowed access to a deceased persons’ email and Facebook accounts?
I believe that executors should be able to access a deceased persons’ email in order to shut it down. I think they should have access to it for a certain period of time like a week then it should automatically be shutdown because. It is through their discretion if they would like to go through that person’s private information and I hope that they would respect that person’s privacy although they are deceased. When it comes to Facebook I again believe it is up to the executor to make the decision if the account stays. However, I do believe that information that person kept privately should remain private.
Why would technology companies like Google be opposed to laws that allow other people to access a user’s account after that person dies?
I believe that technology companies are uncomfortable with other people having access to people’s personal information even if it is an executor. I also feel they do not want to have to deal with problems that arise out of other people having access to some other person’s account. It is a privacy issue and it would be difficult to keep track of all of these privacy issues.

I was born in the US so I will talk about the use of technology in numerous Middle Eastern countries, which came to be known as the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring was numerous groups of people uprising against governments they felt were not providing their people with proper treatment. The uprising of the people vary from country to country some wanted to overthrow their government, others were more focused a treatment of poor citizens, and other reasons. This movement began in Tunisia and spread like wildfire to other Middle Eastern countries. The use of social networks played a vital role in connecting the revolutions and people who were fighting. Many people saw what was going on in other countries through social networks and it gave them the courage to start their own revolutions and connect with others to join. Technology played a vital role in the Arab Spring as it connected these people against those they were protesting.

: http://techland.time.com/2012/10/25/these-are-the-25-worst-passwords-of-2012/?hpt=hp_t3

What tips does the CEO of SplashData give for creating a unique password?
The CEO says that you should come up with “passphrases” for example something like cats go meow, so it’s easy to remember and then you could add hyphens underscores and other punctuation to adhere to many password requirements.
Why are passwords important?
Passwords are important because they help prevent people from accessing personal information about you.

By having more of our lives online, will our daily lives become more visible to outsiders on the internet?
Yes i believe as people use the internet more our lives our exposed more to the outside world. When someone google’s someone’s name the first thing that typically shows up is the link to that person’s Facebook page. Typically people post a lot of information about their lives on their Facebook and other social networking sites online. It is so easy to gain information on these people because they put it online. Our lives are already more visible, I know what my “friends” have been up to for as long as they have had Facebook because I can go back and look at it.
How do we prevent outsiders from viewing and tracking even the smallest details of our lives?
This might sound like a crazy new idea but how about you do not post about those details of your life online! Other than that we can introduce more privacy laws and such, but I feel that won’t be that effective.

At my old restaurant we did take-out orders and my owner used Access to keep track of customers information. So for future use we could see previous orders, and all we would have to ask for was a name and the customers information would come up as well as dates of previous orders. Through this feature we were also able to give out coupons to customers who ordered on a regular basis. It is another tool that helps save time and helped us stay organized.