# Continuity Opt-Out **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Consent / Rights **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Canonical normative right ## Definition A **Continuity Opt-Out** is the legally effective refusal of specified preservation, reconstruction, activation, or hosting practices. ## Continuity Significance A system that permits continuation but not refusal is not a consent architecture. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Postmortem-data directives, deletion rights, digital-testament vetoes, and service refusals provide partial analogues. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Scope must be explicit: opt-out of reconstruction is not necessarily opt-out of archiving. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Right to Digital Death|Right to Digital Death]] · [[wiki/Right to No Reconstruction|Right to No Reconstruction]] · [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] · [[wiki/Continuity Off-Ramp|Continuity Off-Ramp]]