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Any electronic "personal effects" that I wish to be passed on will be saved onto permanent media, or the information needed to access it will be provided to my heirs.
I think these companies are doing the right thing by sticking to their user agreements despite the enormous pressure from the parents and the media. Just because someone's parents or spouse wants access to the information does not mean that the deceased owner wanted them to have that access.
I can easily see situations where people could get news that they would have been better off not knowing. How hard is it to imagine a wife finding E-mail to her dead husband's mistress or some similarly emotionally damaging information?
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Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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