Journal Times – Bill would allow custodian to take over online accounts
“The bill now addresses the chief privacy concerns we had last year,” said Carl Szabo of NetChoice, a trade association of Internet companies including AOL, Facebook and Google.
Szabo said the bill has been revised to require that owners of online accounts explicitly agree in a will or in an online tool provided by an Internet company to allow a custodian to take over the accounts in the case of death or incapacity.
Szabo said Google uses a tool called “inactivity account manager,” and Facebook offers a “legacy contact” designation tool.