One day we will all die, it sounds like a hopeless guess, but it is simply true. Even if you die, companies like Google or Facebook will keep using all the data accumulated to you while you were alive. This may not bother you too much, but you also don't want the company to abuse them.
Given these types of situations, there are many possible solutions prevent Google from continuing to use your data When you are dead. Kind of a guarantee, which gives some users peace of mind. Being able to achieve this is not too complicated.
How to get your Google Account deleted when you die
Create a plan to determine what will happen with your Google account in case you die with the data in it in a convenient way.
Increasingly, we can get a clearer idea about a large amount of data is collected by Google about us. The account we have, which is often associated with many services and apps (Gmail, Photos, Maps, Pay, Play Store, Fit…). All of this collects a lot of data over the years.
Set up your Google Account
It looks like the company has figured it all out, because there's an option available to our personal account, which lets you configure this. This is possible because of the function called Inactive account manager, which allows us to decide what will happen to the Google Account at the time we die.
What this does share your account details with someone close to you or reliable But we can also apply a kind of countdown, to make the account permanently destroyed. This second approach is something we have explored previously, as some may recall. How can we use this company tool?
Use Inactive Account Manager
Our task in this is to determine what will happen to the Google account when we die. We have already mentioned the options, but this is something we will see in the process, where we will decide the account, in a formal way, what will happen. So, from the company they know what we want to do with this account.
The process itself is not complicated. Maybe it's best to do it using a computer, but will depend on each user, of course. The steps to follow in this case are as follows:
- Add your Google Account, to this link.
- Find the Inactive Account Manager option using the search engine.
- On the page where the job is defined, click the first blue button.
- Select that your Google account will no longer be active.
- Enter a contact phone or email.
- Choose who wants to be notified when the account is inactive (top 10 people).
- Create an automated reply message.
- Decide whether or not the account should be deleted.
- Confirm this plan.
The final step is very important in this case, because we decide what will happen with that Google account when we are dead What we want is that the company does not have access to data or that it can continue to use such information. So the logical thing would be to request that the account be deleted once that period of inactivity has passed.
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The program we have developed is open to change, in case there are things we want to change. We have done our part at that time, establishing it in a clear way what we want to happen with that account When we are dead. Google is the one to go along with, over time, not use that data and delete an account, as long as we've created that option.
