OT? Stories that make apple look bad

[Chris]

Er, no. They aren't data.

This has nothing to do with business data. I'm not in business so have no idea what legal responsibilities a business has with regards to its data.

Your opinion is immaterial. The Data Protection Act is to stop people and companies from using people's personal data nor disclose it to third parties without their consent.

You can provide written consent in the will. Also before a family member dies you can get power of attorney. Licenced software, ebooks, music, etc can't be given as inheritance.

Wills cover possessions only. Not data. That's why in the end Apple wiped the mother's account allowing the brothers to reuse the iPad.

[trader_4]

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Fair enough, make the example intangibles like rights to a book a person wr ote or songs. Did the Beatles lose their rights to their works upon their d eaths?

IDK how it works in the UK but here many businesses are sole proprietorship s, so it's a very relevant question. What happens to all the business reco rds with a sole proprietorship when the owner passes? Some online service m ust wipe them out because of a law? Please provide a link to that law.

Which is totally irrelevant to and very different from requiring that data be destroyed and not available to a person's estate, an executor, legitimat e survivors,etc.

Say what? You just said the law forbade that.

Also before a family member

Who ever said it could be? The issue was data that you OWNED, eg photos y ou took, documents or emails you wrote yourself, etc.

Just stop already. You are in way over your head. Data in the form of lett ers, emails, manuscripts, song lyrics, etc are every bit possessions and su bject to Wills as money or your car. Try using a dead artists songs and s ee what happens.

That's why in the end Apple wiped

IDK what Apple did or why, but you're totally clueless.