This case before the Kammergericht (higher regional court, abbreviated KG) in Berlin (reference number 21 U 9/16) is a second-instance court decision that was decided on 31 May 2017 in favour of the defendant, Facebook, who were denying parents access to the social media account of their deceased daughter. This ruling, together with its first instance, was the first German court case to consider matters of digital legacy. It left questions of inheritance law open, relying instead on telecommunications secrecy.