# Data Donor Card
**Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Consent / Data Donation
**Doc Type:** Canonical Concept
**Maturity:** Developed
**Evidence / Concept Status:** Policy-facing proposal
## Definition
A **Data Donor Card** is a proposed instrument allowing a person to express prospective consent regarding postmortem donation or authorized use of Human Digital Remains.
## Continuity Significance
It imports the familiar organ-donor choice architecture into postmortem data and potential reconstruction inputs.
## Existing Architecture / Evidence
The Human Digital Remains governance framework proposes a data-donor card as an autonomy tool.
## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note
Donation of data is not consent to create a person unless the instrument expressly says so.
## Related Ontology
[[wiki/Data Donor Registry|Data Donor Registry]] · [[wiki/Human Digital Remains|Human Digital Remains]] · [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] · [[wiki/Continuity Disposition|Continuity Disposition]]
## Sources / Provenance
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02514-4