Oklahoma law aims to give control of social network profiles to people's will executors

 
BY MICHAEL KIMBALL mkimball@opubco.com
Published: November 28, 2010

A new Oklahoma law is designed to help estate executors or administrators gain control over social networking profiles of people who died and left them behind. Experts say the law itself may prove toothless, but it should remind people to think about what happens to their online legacies after they die.

Former state Rep. Ryan Kiesel, D-Seminole, co-authored House Bill 2800 before he left office. The law, which took...


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