Google launches death data tool

Google will allow users to decide what happens to their data after they die or become inactive online, the first major company to deal with the sensitive issue.

The feature applies to email, social network Google Plus and other accounts.

Users can choose to delete data after a set period of time, or pass it on to specific people.

This is a neat little idea, although judging by some of the idiotic things people post online many could do with this tool right now.

For those people I guess it’s not so bad, Google say you can have everything wiped after as little as three months of internet inactivity, although the people who need their stuff wiping now can’t seem to go three minutes without updating something or other, that could be a problem.