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Facebook privacy change affects accounts of deceased

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From the "by granting you immortality" department:
Title: Here’s why you should double-check your Facebook privacy settings before you die
Author: Chris Smith
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 23:45:05 -0500
Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheBoyGeniusReport/~3/tV7VbNj5YKs/
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Facebook on Friday announced a new privacy change[3] that will affect the
accounts of users who pass away. Instead of only letting deceased users'
friends access their accounts as it did before, Facebook[4] will now keep
those accounts' default privacy settings unchanged. In other words, a dead
person who had a public profile will have their profile stay public even
after death, Facebook revealed[5].

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Links:
[1]: http://bgr.com/2014/02/21/facebook-postmortem-privacy-settings/ (link)
[2]: http://boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/facebook-sign-htc-first.jpg?w=610 (image)
[3]: http://bgr.com/2013/10/11/facebook-search-privacy-policy-change/ (link)
[4]: http://bgr.com/tag/facebook (link)
[5]: http://newsroom.fb.com/News/806/Remembering-Our-Loved-Ones (link)
[6]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoyGeniusReport/~4/tV7VbNj5YKs (image)

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Facebook privacy change affects accounts of deceased RS Wood  <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-24 11:31 +0000

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