Friday, May 20, 2022
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Careers
Scoftware Magazine
  • Home
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Culture
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Entertainment
  • Login
No Result
View All Result
Scoftware Magazine
Home Tech

How to prepare your Google accounts for your digital afterlife

Jaleel M. by Jaleel M.
May 24, 2021
in Tech
0
How to prepare your Google accounts for your digital afterlife
0
SHARES
4
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter


We live in a world where our digital identity, footprint, and data have equal or at times more value than our assets in the offline world. We have financial information, personal information, sensitive data, memories, conversations, connections etc., that we have created over the time we have spent online.

But have you ever considered what happens to all the content you have accumulated and created online after your time?

■ How to pass it on to someone?

■ Who can access your data?

■ Who will own your accounts?

■ How to manage it when such a time comes?

For many of us, Google’s products and web services are some of the most frequently used things both at work and home. Be it for communication (emails, chats, messages etc.), sharing information or storing data (photographs, documents, files etc.), and assets (financial and other valuable documents, accounts etc.).

Google allows you to nominate a person, a group of people or deactivate your account in the situation that you are no more physically able to access or use the service via the ‘Inactive Account Manager’ setting.

Follow the steps given below to set it up and ensure that the information in your Google accounts is handed over to someone else safely or managed according to your choice.

Setting up Google’s Inactive Account Manager

‘Inactive Account Manager’ is what google calls this feature. The service waits for a preset duration of time as chosen by you, after which Google will intimate and share your selected data with one or a group of up to 10 people you have selected to receive your data.

The data points you can select to be shared include your Gmail data, Hangouts communications, YouTube account, Drive data, Google Photos, etc. The feature will also allow you to choose which person receives what data from which service of yours; for example, person A can receive only your Gmail data and person B can receive your Google Photos only and so on. Once your account becomes inactive, and the chosen people gain access to your Google data, they have up to three months to download your data.

If you do not wish to share your information with anybody, Google also gives you the option to delete your account after a certain period of inactivity.

Step 1: To get started up with setting up your ‘Inactive Account Manager’, visit the My Account page of your Google account and select the ‘Data & Personalisation’ page. Else you can visit https://myaccount.google.com/inactive directly while logged in to your Google account.

Step 2: Turn On the service by clicking the ‘Start’ button on top of the page.

Step 3: You have to set up three main settings to complete the process; the first is when Google should consider your account to be inactive. Fill in the duration (when Google should initiate the service) and the contact details for handover.

Step 4: The following setting is to choose whom to notify and what information to share once your account is confirmed to be inactive. Here you can fill in the email address of one or multiple people and choose what data or information of yours each of them should receive.

Step 5: The final setting is to choose whether all your data will be deleted by Google once your account becomes inactive. If you decide to enable this option, the people informed in the previous step will have up to 3 months to download the information you have chosen to share with them; post this timeframe, Google will delete all your data, and it will be difficult to retrieve it.

Subscribe to Mint Newsletters

* Enter a valid email

* Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter.

Never miss a story! Stay connected and informed with Mint.
Download
our App Now!!



Source link

Related posts

This WhatsApp feature allows users to hide unwanted group chats without leaving them. Here’s how

This WhatsApp feature allows users to hide unwanted group chats without leaving them. Here’s how

July 29, 2021
WhatsApp in line for fine as data watchdogs resolve dispute

WhatsApp in line for fine as data watchdogs resolve dispute

July 28, 2021
Previous Post

Sensex sends 111 points up, Nifty closes at 15,197; today’s top gainers and losers-Business News , Firstpost

Next Post

Privacy experts wary of covid directive

Next Post
Privacy experts wary of covid directive

Privacy experts wary of covid directive

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

RECOMMENDED NEWS

Michelle Obama denounces Trump as ‘wrong president’, United States News & Top Stories

Michelle Obama denounces Trump as ‘wrong president’, United States News & Top Stories

2 years ago
Michael Jones Releases New Single “This is the Night”

Michael Jones Releases New Single “This is the Night”

2 years ago
YES Bank FPO: Here’s how to check your allotment status; offer had received 93% subscription on last day of bidding

YES Bank FPO: Here’s how to check your allotment status; offer had received 93% subscription on last day of bidding

2 years ago
Realme to soon launch its first flagship store, premium service centre in India

Realme to soon launch its first flagship store, premium service centre in India

1 year ago

FOLLOW US

  • 111 Followers
  • 29.5k Followers
  • 168k Subscribers

BROWSE BY CATEGORIES

  • Business
  • Culture
  • Entertainment
  • Lifestyle
  • Music
  • National
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Politics
  • Sports
  • Tech
  • Travel
  • World News

BROWSE BY TOPICS

2018 League Balinese Culture Bali United Budget Travel Champions League Chopper Bike Doctor Terawan Istana Negara Market Stories National Exam Visit Bali

POPULAR NEWS

  • Charles B and Kamil Ghaouti Collaborate on Groovy New Track “You’re Not Mine,” featuring LauraBrown. Out on Protocol Recordings

    Charles B and Kamil Ghaouti Collaborate on Groovy New Track “You’re Not Mine,” featuring LauraBrown. Out on Protocol Recordings

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Kris Jenner Spills Details About Her Sex Life With Corey Gamble: Watch

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish Are Men in Kilts for Travel Show

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Common Saints Release New Single “Idol Eyes”

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Salted vs. Unsalted Pistachios

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Careers

© 2020 Scoftware.com

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Culture
  • National
  • Sports
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Opinion

© 2020 Scoftware.com

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Create New Account!

Fill the forms bellow to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Terms and Conditions - Privacy Policy