Should this task be left to the discretion of the companies where this information was published? Can not only Facebook, but also Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., unilaterally decide what to do with the data of their deceased users?
Let's broaden the question: what do we do with each person's blogs, web projects, domains, and passwords? Are they deleted when the deceased stops paying the fee for the online service (hosting, etc.) to the buy phone number list corresponding company? And that's it?
“Control over personal data (and therefore what remains of it) is increasingly concentrated in a small number of global players (many owned by Facebook, such as WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram). And, as Orwell warned in 1984 , those who control our access to the past also control how we perceive the present ,” warn the authors of the Oxford Internet Institute report. Herein lies the crux of the matter.
The report also assumes that “Facebook, or something like it, will continue to exist in the future.”
In that “or something similar” lies another crux of the matter.
Because Facebook is no longer just a social network , not even now, and even if it still exists in 50 or 100 years (if it even operates at all), it will be nowhere near what we know it as today.
Facebook is a technology company that has been investing in artificial intelligence since 2014. In 2017, it opened a large research center in Montreal, Canada, specializing in “reinforcement learning.” In 2018, it published the Talk the Walk project with the University of Montreal . This project would allow a neural network to guide a user through the street using Facebook, even if there is no internet access or the user is unwilling or unable to specify their location. They would simply have to “start talking” to the artificial intelligence system, describing their surroundings, and it would tell them what to do.
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