Digital afterlife, data decay protocols, digital legacy management, privacy after death, digital inheritance, automated data deletion, ethical data governance.
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Digital Afterlife Data Decay Protocols: Challenges, Frameworks, and FutureDirections
Abstract: What sticks around online when someone dies - things like email, profiles, stored files, or digital names - makes up what people call a digital afterlife. Long trails left behind in apps and platforms grow wider every year, making it more urgent to handle such information with care, respect choices made while alive, and avoid confusion later on. Problems pop up not just in how systems store or delete data …
Published in NOLEGEIN Journal of Corporate & Business Laws · Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2026 · pp. 22–26 Read article