[withinboredom]

Generally, they should be able to get into any account with a death certificate, even if they don't know the password. It just takes longer. It took like 4 months for a friend to gain access to their dad's one-drive account to access photos on their computer.

[patrakov]

This is not possible if the data on the server is encrypted with the key derived from the person's password or a completely independent key and no escrow has ever been implemented. That's why, for example, you can't read my old Wire messages or look at photos that I sent and received there, even if you fake my death certificate.

[toomuchtodo]

Legacy contacts are the pattern here.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102631

[cube00]

No chance that's happening with Google.

[squigz]

https://support.google.com/accounts/troubleshooter/6357590?h...

[cube00]

Good luck not getting burnt by Google's classic lack of support... https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/1fclx16/google_dece...