When you die, should your loved ones have access to your Facebook, Gmail and other online accounts? The Uniform Law Commission, whose members are appointed by state governments to help standardize state laws, was expected to endorse a plan Wednesday to automatically give loved ones access to — but not control of — all digital accounts unless otherwise specified. They have no idea what is about to be lost,’’ said Karen Williams of Beaverton, Oregon, who sued Facebook for access to her 22-year-old son Loren’s account after he died in a 2005 motorcycle accident. Imagine the trove of digital files being amassed by someone of historical value — say former President Bill Clinton or musician Bob Dylan — and what those files might fetch on an auction block. ‘‘Our email accounts are our filing cabinets these days,’’ said Suzanne Brown Walsh, a Cummings & Lockwood attorney who chaired the drafting committee on the bill.
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