Friday, October 21, 2011

Brits Leave Internet Passwords in Wills

-breakingnewsenglish.com

 More and more British people are leaving their usernames and Internet passwords in their wills. For hundreds of years, wills have included money, houses, cars and paintings. Now wills have gone digital. Over ten per cent of Britons say they have put their passwords in their will. They want their loved ones to use them after they die. People often have thousands of dollars of movies, music and software on password-protected sites. They feel it is important to pass on these things to the people they love. 

It is not only things like films and songs that Britons want to include in their will. They are also putting in their Facebook and Flickr accounts. This means their loved ones will be able to protect these accounts. Many Facebook pages are used by hackers after a person dies. Facebook and similar sites will not give the log-on details to the family of the person who died. The sites are lost forever because no one knows how to access them. Lawyers say everyone should think about what happens to their online data after they die.





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