Ancestors

Written by Lorna Woods on 2025-01-13 at 08:01

There is a Westmnster Hall debate today on this petition:

Give parents/guardians a right to access social media accounts of their children - Petitions

https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/661407

It will be interesting to see if other issues are raised.

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Written by Lorna Woods on 2025-01-13 at 19:48

Here is the Hansard transcript from the debate:

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025-01-13/debates/BE75FBD7-CA64-4944-AA56-913BD13AD2AC/Children%E2%80%99SSocialMediaAccounts

The petition covered parents' access to children's accounts (essentially 13-18 year olds), both those still alive as well as deceased children. Debate however noted teenagers' right to privacy and the UK's international obligations - though one proposed response to the concerns in this context seemed to be increased parental controls.

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Written by Lorna Woods on 2025-01-13 at 19:52

Some services (eg TikTok) say data protection rules prohibit them from giving parents access to the data of their deceased child; Snapchat discloses on a case-by-case basis. It remains to be seen how far the Government's Data (Use and Access) Bill will go in addressing the issue.

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Descendants

Written by Lilian Edwards on 2025-01-25 at 10:34

@LornaWoods only access to coroner isn't it? Which is obv not most cases. Is there any mechanism to invoke a coroner to act? I dk why they didn't just simply say that an administrator/ executor has this right of access as part of general powers to ingather estate. Our recent research showed solicitors still at sea.

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Written by Lorna Woods on 2025-01-25 at 13:43

@lilianedwards I think there's a difference between what the parents want in this petition and what is being discussed in the context of DUA.

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Written by Lilian Edwards on 2025-01-25 at 13:55

@LornaWoods yes but the parents are right, as long as some account ( suc) made for privacy of mature kids

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Written by Lorna Woods on 2025-01-25 at 18:35

@lilianedwards Well it is a surprise (to me) that some of these things haven't been sorted out already.....

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