I have no idea what the status of the law with regard to documents, photos and ideas (intellectual property).
Google gives me the opportunity to store scanned documents, photographs and my 'ideas' on their servers. I can do this by attaching the files to a gmail sent to a "storage" email account, or by using their spreadsheet or psuedoWord services through my gmail account. I'm sure many people are doing the same thing. It's a method for backing up your files and it allows you to access these files from any computer connected to the internet.
But what happens when I shuffle off the mortal coil? Or if I die!!
Liz has a couple of my passwords and since she can access my main email account, she'd be able to 'harvest' them and see what I took the time to save. It would be immensely boring for her.
But there are people out there who may have some pretty exciting stuff stored online. Who has more right to it upon their intestate deaths, their common law heirs or the service that stored all those MBs? Especially if the common law heirs didn't even know there were things stored online?
Sure, like when they sell the contents of storage facilities, it's mostly all crap. But occasionally you find cardboard boxes full of cash or video tapes of Lindsey Lohan acting rationally, a true rarity!
What do you have stored online that you don't want the rest of us to know about? Please provide all the squishy details. Please?
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No one in myu family, except my sister, knows about my blog. And I hope it always stays that way.
Imagine that you write something kind of racy, like BJs for Birthdays (a wonderful program sponsored by "Wives of Husbands who are just like Dependent Children) and someone sends that silly scribbling to your employer and something negative happens, is anyone in the wrong? And does Keith care?
Bert, If you've saved all of the emails I've sent you over the years and Liz has access, all that would be necessary for the Big T's demise would be her running into Linda at the grocery store.
I should also hope that no family members discover my blog, nor my friends' spouses my correspondence with them about...well, anything. But I don't scan any documents or treatises I sign with shady shadow governments because I'm all about security.
And I don't own a scanner. And I'm monstrously lazy. But mostly, it's the security thing.
My private collection of incriminating and titilating photos on Flickr, plus all those BDSM stories I write for Literotica.
A news item this morning mentioned that divorce lawyers are using EZ Pass records to prove the where abouts of cheating spouses. Yesterday it was announced that a man is suing 1800FLOWERS because they let slip to his wife about the flowers he sent his girlfriend.
I have only told one person about my blog. He told our kids. I wanted to smack him, but didn't. I thought maybe Pistols' Non-Aggression Pact might have a secret clause including others and I might get sued.
In fact, the Flower story just infuriates me. What next, sue Visa for the credit card statement that showed he visited the Mustang Ranch and paid for a 2 year peep at HotHotties.com? Can my daughter sue my son if he tattles and she gets grounded? Can I sue Visa myself for those infuriating ads about people who deign to use cash? How about suing Walmart for making me look at the large, busty woman with that much chest hair? Surely I can get some compensation for that?
I keep nothing online. My myspace page has a pic of our house. That's it. No name, no nothing.
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