If you'd prefer your digital life to be as neatly tidied up as your real one, then Yahoo Japan is offering (English translation) the solution. The outfit is offering Yahoo Ending, a service that'll help locals prepare for their funerals in the real world, as well as closing down their social media profiles after notifying followers and friends of their demise.
The package will also close down any digital wallet accounts held by Yahoo, and can even offer basic will-writing advice for those who need it. There's no word as to the company's plans to bring the offering to the western world, so until then, we'll just have to hope that future archaeologists don't use our poolside selfies as exhibits in a museum.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 17 2014, @08:10AM
I am the living dead. I don't have any social media profiles.
(Score: 5, Informative) by frojack on Thursday July 17 2014, @08:44AM
If have a google/gmail account you go to https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive [google.com]
You can set what happens, who gets notified, who gets access, or if it should all be deleted if you stop using it for a length of time you can specify.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 17 2014, @09:09AM
Include DMCA takedown requests in your will to delete all your intellectual property. Problem solved.
(Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 17 2014, @10:04AM
What would be so bad about it if future archaeologists would put your poolside selfies into a museum?
(Score: 1) by crAckZ on Thursday July 17 2014, @12:15PM
Someone figures out that they can "take over" the accounts of the deceased? Then you have all the persons information for banking or their contact list to phish for money or other personal information. A subscriber dies and a creative employee gets started on the harvesting or take over before the word gets out to everyone.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday July 17 2014, @08:22PM
Happens all the time, but most frequently, the perpetrators are the family, continuing to collect
benefits (Social security, etc). I'm given to understand that the SSA's computer systems are easily
tricked. If you die in your sleep after a long disease, no red flags are triggered,
no investigation is conducted, and a family doctor might misspell a name or omit an SSN on a death
certificate.
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Thursday July 17 2014, @12:47PM
My uncle had that in place when he passed, seemed like a smart idea to me if you have any kinks you don't want others to know about. Me personally I figure if I'm dead why should I care, I'm sure as bad with PCs as the wife is she'll have it so screwed in a week it won't boot, problem solved ;-)
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by cykros on Thursday July 17 2014, @01:40PM
Could set up a cron job to look for last login, or some other method of gauging your direct activity on your system. When a month or so passes, wipe everything you want gone, and change the password to "password" (or something equally secure). Then in your will, explain that everyone should just hold their horses and wait the month or 6 months or whatever you've set (because presumably if they try to access anything before then your thermite booby trap will fry it all).
Or better yet, keep the music collection you want to go to the grandkids on a separate hard drive than your porn stash, and keep the porn stash encrypted. Unless you're a serious perv, chances are by the time that encryption is broken, your porn stash being uncovered won't be of any interest to anyone anyway (and this all assumes the hard drive hasn't long since died anyway, but with SSD's, things are a'changing...)
(Score: 1) by panachocala on Thursday July 17 2014, @02:03PM
Yahoo is so bad I don't even want to log in any more, even to delete my account. It stalls my computer and pops shit up with every mouseover of anything.