Ever imagined what will happen to your digital data, especially emails and photos after you die? Google is here to help you in deciding what to do with your digital data when you die or no longer using your account. The new feature called the Google ‘Inactive Account Manager’ allows you to decide what to do with all the data from several Google services if your account becomes inactive for any reason.
With this enabled you can delete your data entirely after the pre-set time period of three, six, nine or 12 months of inactivity. Or you have an option to select trusted contacts to receive data from your Google accounts, they are notified about this after a pre-set time period. Your trusted contacts can retrieve data from following Google services +1s; Blogger; Contacts and Circles; Drive; Gmail; Google+ Profiles, Pages and Streams; Picasa Web Albums; Google Voice and YouTube.
How to activate the service?
Source – Inactive Account Manager
This post was last modified on August 14, 2016 1:32 pm