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German parents may have access to the personal account of Facebook of their daughter who died in 2012. The miner lost his life when he was knocked over by a subway car in Berlin, [19659002] Germany ] while he was only 15 years old.
The parents of the minor went on Facebook to access the account of her deceased minor daughter. The desperate parents' attempt was in vain. The couple needed to enter the account of his daughter to find out if his death was accidental or a suicide.
Facebook's refusal to grant access to the deceased miner's account was because they felt he was violating the private content of the people who had spoken to him.
The parents alleged that his daughter's account of Facebook was legally equal to the diaries or letters that can be given to relatives after a death.
After a legal battle started in 2015, the parents' couple was able to access Facebook account of their youngest daughter who died. However, two years later, the Berlin Court of Appeals took the opposite position and recalled that "the secrecy of telecommunications is guaranteed by the Basic Law", which also applies to social network accounts.
On Thursday, the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe decided to grant access to the Facebook account of the minor to his parents. "Data confidentiality issues are not affected because the regulation protects only living people," the judges said.
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