Germany’s highest court has ruled that access to social networks can be inherited when people die, overturning a previous court’s decision that kept a grieving mother locked out of her daughter’s account after the girl was hit by a subway train. A year ago, a German court denied the mother’s request to access her dead daughter’s Facebook account – access she had been seeking for years in an effort to determine whether the girl had purposefully thrown herself in front of a train at a Berlin station in 2012, and if cyberbullying was behind what could have been her child’s suicide.

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