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Family Wins Right To Access Dead Son's Web Page

POSTED: 8:09 am PDT April 25, 2007
UPDATED: 9:52 am PDT April 25, 2007

A Beaverton family is celebrating a bittersweet victory after a judge granted them access to their dead son’s personal Web page.

Loren Williams, 22, died in a motorcycle accident two years ago.

Since then, his parents said they gained insight into their son’s life by looking at his Web page on Facebook.com.

However, managers of the company blocked them from accessing the page and said the profile will be deleted since he had died.

The Williams family convinced a judge to issue a court order that allowed them to access the Web page and gave them the right to keep it going.

“Everybody is leaving so much of their lives on the Internet. There could be very valuable business information on their account or writing an American novel on it and it would be gone, poof,” said Williams’ mother, Karen.

Experts said the Williams family lawsuit is the first of its kind in the country against Facebook.com.

Family Wins Rights To Access Dead Son's Web Page

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