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40 Pepp. L. Rev. 185 (2012-2013)
What Happens to Our Facebook Accounts When we Die - Probate versus Policy and the Fate of Social-Media Assets Postmortem

handle is hein.journals/pepplr40 and id is 193 raw text is: What Happens to Our Facebook
Accounts When We Die?: Probate
Versus Policy and the Fate of Social-
Media Assets Postmortem
1. (DON'T FRIEND) THE REAPER: AN INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL
DEATH'S COMPLEXITIES
II. DIGITAL ASSETS AND DEATH: A PROFILE PICTURE
A. Defining Digital Assets
1. Devices and Data
2. E-mail
3. Online Accounts and Their Subcomponent Social
Media
4. The Most Liked Social Media and How They Work
B. What Did I Just Agree To? Terms of Service (ToS) and
Contract Law
C. The Young and the Will-less: Probate Law and Intestacy
D. Social-Media Assets as Property
E. Postmortem Privacy Settings
III. DIGITAL ASSETS AND DEATH: A STATUS UPDATE!
A. In Re Ellsworth and the Current Climate for Social Media
Litigation
B. State Legislative Responses
1. Oklahoma, Then Idaho: The First to Enumerate Social
Networking
2. Indiana: Broad Electronic Access Rights to the
Custodian
3. Connecticut and Rhode Island: Access to E-mail
Contents
4. Delaware and Ambiguous Statutory Implications
5. Emerging Efforts
C. Current ToS and User Agreements
D. Another Corporate Response: DEPs
IV. ANALYZING SOCIAL MEDIA'S COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIPS
A. Probate

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