SACRAMENTO — After several failed attempts, Facebook Inc., Yahoo Inc. and other online communications companies appear to have reached an agreement with state legislators over how the digital assets of the dead should be handled.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved legislation setting guidelines for when and how companies can share emails, instant messages and other electronically stored records that belonged to a user who has died. AB 691, the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act, is based on national model legislation and backed by Google Inc. and AOL Inc. as well as Facebook and Yahoo.
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