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Illinois Prof Calls for a Federal Law To Safeguard Digital Afterlives 82

Posted by timothy from the you-don't-seem-to-be-using-this-account-any-more dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A new paper from Professor Jason Mazzone at the University of Illinois calls for federal laws to regulate what happens to digital accounts after the account holder's death. Mazzone argues that Facebook and other online services have policies for deceased users' accounts that do not adequately protect the individual property and privacy interests at stake. The full text of the paper (called "Facebook's Afterlife") is also available: "
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It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

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