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PASS ON YOUR DATA after you die

So much of our life is now spent online that it’s increasingly important to decide what happens to our accounts after we die. Securing your digital legacy allows loved ones to access your photos, videos, emails and other personal files when you’re no longer around to share the content yourself, preventing it from being lost forever. It also means you can bequeath specific data to different family members and close friends without compromising your privacy by revealing your passwords while you’re still alive. Here we explain the digital-legacy policies of the big tech companies.

GOOGLE

Google offers a virtual funeral plan in the form of Inactive Account Manager, which gives you full control over what happens to the various elements

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