How to Secure your Personal Data with Inactive Accounts Manager

Digital AfterLife:Secure your Private Data with Inactive Accounts Manager

Google always comes up with new innovative ideas to the internet world and that always becomes a trend for the others to copy with.This time they came with the Inactive Accounts Manager, a new service from Google which helps you plan your digital  online data after a period of in-activeness on your account either by your demise or by some other reasons.

This wouldn't  be seen as a great service if launched a few years back as no one cared much about the online data as important.But now most of the people has the tendency to store their important data online with the secure online storage services like Dropbox, Google Drive,and the cloud services.With the smartphone revolution most works are done online using the Cloud services.These makes the Inactive Accounts Manager worth.

Currently Google provides this service for their following products: +1s,Blogger,Gmail,Contacts and Circles,Drive,Youtube,Google Voice,Picasa Web Albums,Google+ profiles,Pages and Streams.

With Inactive Accounts Manager the users can tell Google what to do with their accounts once they stop using it.The Accounts manager provides an option to transfer your data to a trusted account or to a group of trusted accounts that you setup after your account become inactive for a given period.Also if you don't want to share your personal data with anyone else ,you can permanently delete your account after the defined period of time.

How to Setup Inactive Accounts Manager:

Inactive Accounts manager will be available with your current accounts setting page.Once got into the accounts settings select the Accounts management where you can find the Setup for Inactive Accounts Manager.

Enter into setup for setting up your Inactive Accounts manager.

Alert Me:

Here you are asked to provide with a valid phone number and an alternative email address to notify you before taking any actions on your accounts.These are important as you don't want to delete your account for being inactive for some unexpected reasons.

Timeout Period:

Here you can setup the timeout period for taking actions upon your inactive account.Google provides time periods for 3 months,6 months, 9 months and 1 year time period.

Also Google will alert you one month before your timeout period

Notify Contacts and Share data:

Here you can add up to 10 trusted contacts of friends or family members who will be notified if your account remains inactive.Also there is an option for users to share their data with them.

Delete Account: 

This is optional and this allows you to delete your publicly shared data on Google products after your requested actions are completed.

Enable Inactive Accounts Manager

Once completed with the setup click on "Enable" to enable your Inactive Accounts Manager.

This service could be helpful for both the users and the service providers .Users can make sure that their data won't be lost after their death or due to loss of their account details. They can even plan that to be send to some of their own account in case of an account loss.Also for service providers like Google it is a way to reduce their inactive users and accounts and could save a lot of storage and maintenance for these inactive accounts.

Because of this advantage ,it looks like more service providers like Facebook, yahoo and twitter  will be interested in providing a similar service like inactive Accounts manager as most of them are wasting much time and space maintaining these kind of Inactive accounts.

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