Comments on Ralphtips Tech Buzz!: What happens to Online Data after you pass away?

@Eric's Father Thanks for your comment and my...

2010-04-11T01:04:24.490+03:00

@Eric's Father Thanks for your comment and my sincere condolence, I received your email and will get back to you ASAP.

I will do my best to help.

Thanks for the great aticle, I face the same probl...

2010-04-09T17:04:56.073+03:00

Thanks for the great aticle, I face the same problem with my son who died a year ago and till now having a problem to access his info am a old parent and i dont know a lot of technology. I have emailed you at support@ralphtips.com I will be grateful if you can help

@JD First of all thank for your comment, Glad you ...

2010-04-05T21:41:51.936+03:00

@JD First of all thank for your comment, Glad you liked the article.

I am not really sure about this, just came up ! but now am sure its was an excellent one. I have not expected the no. of emails of people who found this useful and who suffered due to lack of a straight answer about this topic.

have a good day or night :)

how the hell did u come up with this topic !!!!! ...

2010-04-05T19:34:16.207+03:00

how the hell did u come up with this topic !!!!!

good one though!

WE ARE PUPPETS ! WOW i never knew this is how it w...

2009-09-21T06:06:10.259+03:00

WE ARE PUPPETS ! WOW i never knew this is how it works.

Even though they might have written all details in the privacy policy or terms of use , they make it a 100 pages long so people dont read!

Thanks for the great article.

@YARA Thank you for commenting, You have summed i...

2009-09-15T03:43:28.150+03:00

@YARA Thank you for commenting, You have summed it up :) We are sooo dissolved into the online world and with all the social networking sites its has become very hard to protect online privacy.

Twitter is all day trying hard to keep their site running :) Emails seem to be the last thing they care about. And Maktoob is still sleeping , dreaming of Yahoo and the $85 M they got :)

The only way to ensure privacy is to share as little information as possible.

I will probably Write a post with the main steps needed to Protect Privacy online especially Facebook.

Thanks again for commenting and for your loyalty to Ralphtips Tech Buzz :)

Reading this article makes me want to delete any s...

2009-09-13T10:41:52.140+03:00

Reading this article makes me want to delete any sort of private information I have on my accounts...and like Jane T. said " There is nothing called privacy!" ... Except, I think that access to the deceased's e-mail account, whichever is the e-mail provider, can be considered crucial...as sad as it is they have passed, there might be valuable information on their e-mail. Especially if it were business related, or general transactions that need to be carried out.

Facebook, everybody is using it. My own mother has an account. To think that their security measures on this one slip this low is quite shocking...ONLINE FORMS cannot prove anything, unless of course they have the IP address of the deceased, which is ridiculous and probably not the same. There is no way of authenticating the information sent as it is just regular information, does not verify identity nor does it require proof of death. If I'm alive, someone can submit an online form and memorialize my account and thats it. Im a dead person.

Overall, I'm glad you got this post up, it's the first of it's kind that I'VE read and has really given me to insight on "E-post-mortem procedures"... Although I am highly disappointed with Twitter and Maktoob's automation with the reply, makes you wonder how important to them you really are. They should start interviewing people who will actually READ the e-mails sent ...

Congrats on a great article. Thank you.

@Jane T. I agree with you to a certain extent :) ...

2009-09-13T10:24:42.626+03:00

@Jane T. I agree with you to a certain extent :) The issue of privacy has been the concern of users in the past few years due to the increasing holes that companies have in their Privacy Policies.

Therefore We users have to expose such holes and demand these companies to change their policies until user privacy is secured to the Max.

Thank you for your comment

I knew it from the beginning...There is nothing ca...

2009-09-13T10:13:58.313+03:00

I knew it from the beginning...There is nothing called privacy!

Hello j2me, Your welcome :) there is a strange sid...

2009-09-13T03:36:07.538+03:00

Hello j2me, Your welcome :) there is a strange side to it, The details are also available on their help site too http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=14300

Personal accounts should stay private even after death because everyone has private stuff and because they are called "personal" as you said.

feel free to check, good idea that your contacting them, let me know what they say.

This is just the start j2me there are many things that are similar waiting for us to discover.

Thanks for reading and commenting.

thanks whoever you are :) this thing about Gmail i...

2009-09-12T15:01:04.726+03:00

thanks whoever you are :) this thing about Gmail is strange. it is nowhere in the terms. is it?
well we have our personal accounts because we don't want anyone else to be sharing the stuff we keep there.
yeah there isn't anything anyone can do to someone dead. but what if someone doesn't want to share his/her stuff with his/her spouse/parents/kids or even friends, Google need to come clear on this.
i mean i don't keep or subscribe to any porn etc but still...
earlier i thought Google was the most securest of the places but this thing has had me thinking...
i have a lots of free Gmail accounts, some of them i have never used with only the two,three mails from Gmail but wanted no one else could get that username i don't use any other mail except a yahoo ID just for IM purposes to connect with my friends who wouldn't use Gmail, i don't know but they give plenty of reasons and now i have got my own too...
what if someone of high known integrity dies and someone from the family gets access to his/her mail address and have its contents published, like say there is a phone number or just anything...startling...okay i would be mailing same as written with some changes of course to Google and lets see what they have got to say....