The State of Wyoming is looking at creating legislation that will provide a process for dealing with a person’s social media accounts after they die. Not a lot of jurisdictions have legislation in place for dealing with a decedent’s social media services like their Facebook, Twitter, and email accounts. Lawmakers in Wyoming would like to model the legislation after the Privacy Expectation Afterlife and Choices Act, which is a piece of legislation that technology firms are lobbying for across the United States. The bill will create a process that will make it easier for decedents to give family members access to their accounts after they pass away.
See Trevor Brown, What happens to social media after you die?, The Wyoming Tribune Eagle, June 20, 2015.
Special thanks to Brian Cohan (Attorney at Law, Law Offices of Brian J. Cohan, P.C.) for bringing this article to my attention.
