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The Ethics of Dead People Online and the Right to Be Forgotten

   

Added on  2020-10-05

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The Ethics of Dead People Onlineand the Right to Be Forgotten

Table of ContentsSecurity and Privacy of the Dead.....................................................................................................3Legal models...............................................................................................................................4Digital Legacies ..............................................................................................................................5REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

Security and Privacy of the DeadAs online act turn into a important part of every day life, much more of the data andinformation gathered online can be very personal. Other than this, very few young adults have awill ordering what must be done with all the personal data, digital assets and informationgathered online during their life. In the absence of legal purpose, a deceased individual’s lateright to privacy is less under current law (Faklaris, 2016). Due to the fact that property law andcontract law ineffectively protect a deceased individual’s online privacy rights, extending theinvasion of privacy tort lately is the most effective and best method to protect an individual’sprivacy rights after death. Utilizing common law would be most effective because a legislativeapproach would take too long (Kitzinger,2015). Also, common law and state legislatures alreadyacknowledge dignitary interests.148 Since dignity and privacy are closely intertwined and digitalassets tend to elicit much more personal information than a dead body, extending the wrongfulconduct lately is essential to protect these rights. As more and more people are using socialmedia such as Facebook to share personal data or information, privacy issues become critical tothe discussion regarding the control over users accounts after the death of the owner of thatparticular account. Although internet service providers such as Facebook have developedpolicies governing the terms and conditions of a user's account, these policies generally do notprotect a deceased person's right to privacy entirely (Korenhof and et.al., 2015). There two mainapproaches offered as a means of protecting a deceased individual's online privacy. The first isincluded in contract law, while the second is rooted within the property law. The contract theorydepends upon analysing terms of service agreements that users are accepting for determining thescope of their posthumous privacy rights, while the property theory identify whether a deceaseduser's digital assets may be treated same as real property after death of the owner. Thesemeasures although do no protect a deceased individual's right to privacy properly. Pictures ofdead people, victims of crimes and other incidents (Stewart and Bunton, 2016). At the moment,kind of protection varies from country to country and in most of the legal system's successionlaws families have a default access to a deceased individual's data and memories. Serviceprovides already grant this too. For example- this means that families can ask Facebook to deletethe account of an individual or for access to some of the content excluding private chats. Thefamily members can also request to turn the profile into a memorial. But on the other hand users

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