Parents have no right to dead child's Facebook account

The mother of a 15-year-old who was hit and killed by a subway train in Berlin in 2012 had sought access to her daughter's FB account to search for clues as to whether the girl had committed suicide.

FRANKFURT: A German court rejected a mother's demand on Wednesday that Facebook grant her access to her deceased daughter's account. 

In the ruling, which overturned a lower court's decision, the Berlin appeals court said the right to private telecommunications extended to electronic communication that was meant only for the eyes of certain people.