Facebook has reversed its previous decision to let only friends and family members see the profile of deceased loved ones, saying it will keep privacy settings for profiles "as-is."
The social media network announced Friday it is changing its restrictions to access "memorialized" pages, so they will now be visible to everyone the user opened their profile to before they died.
Previously, only friends of the deceased user were able to view their pages and content, regardless of whether the privacy settings were set to public. Now, Facebook says it "will maintain the visibility of a person's content as-is."
"This will allow people to see memorialized profiles in a manner consistent with the deceased person's expectations of privacy," Facebook said in its statement. "We are respecting the choices a person made in life while giving their extended community of family and friends ongoing visibility to the same content they could always see."
Those pages could also be taken down at the request of friends or family, and Facebook says it won't be providing any login information for memorialized accounts.
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