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Big Tech offers little help when loved ones die
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On Dec. 1, Google began to delete accounts that had been inactive for two years. This change in practice seeks to address serious security issues, including scammers using old accounts to impersonate legitimate users. However, the change also has some unexpected consequences for one group of people who aren’t often considered in tech policy, because they aren’t really users anymore: the dearly departed. My dad died in the summer of 2020. He was in his 50s and didn't have a recent will. It took more than two years for my brother and I to get all his accounts in order. One of the biggest challenges in resolving his estate was not the complexity of navigating pandemic-era bureaucracy,

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