How do we provide the digital footprint with eternal rest? Some criteria for legislation regulating digital wills

This article analyses the implications of the death of digital service users on their digital footprint and assesses some of the solutions -contractual and legislative-that have been posited to date by digital service providers and by Parliaments of a few countries. In view of the different initiati...

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Autor: Cerrillo-i-Martínez, Agustí
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositorio:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
OAI Identifier:oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/125006
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/10609/125006
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:digital footprint
digital wills
digital service provider
regulation
huella digital
testamentos digitales
proveedor de servicios digitales
regulación
empremta digital
testaments digitals
proveïdor de serveis digitals
regulació
Electronic data processing -- Law and legislation
Informàtica -- Dret i legislació
Informática -- Derecho y legislación
Descrição
Resumo:This article analyses the implications of the death of digital service users on their digital footprint and assesses some of the solutions -contractual and legislative-that have been posited to date by digital service providers and by Parliaments of a few countries. In view of the different initiatives analysed, and the experience gained in their implementation, the paper presents legal certainty, effectiveness and transparency as criteria that should guide the regulation of the digital footprint in the case of death. These criteria must allow for the adoption or regulation of mechanisms for managing the digital footprint of digital service users to be clear and trustworthy for them and efficient and easily recognized and adopted by digital service providers.