# Data Donor Registry
**Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Registry / Consent
**Doc Type:** Canonical Concept
**Maturity:** Developed
**Evidence / Concept Status:** Proposed architecture
## Definition
A **Data Donor Registry** is a proposed authoritative registry recording a person's postmortem data-donation choices.
## Continuity Significance
It is structurally adjacent to Continuity Election Registry and could become an enrollment layer for preservation or reconstruction permissions.
## Existing Architecture / Evidence
Policy-facing Human Digital Remains work proposes government-maintained donor-register analogies.
## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note
No general national digital-afterlife donor registry was identified as enacted current law.
## Related Ontology
[[wiki/Data Donor Card|Data Donor Card]] · [[wiki/Continuity Election Registry|Continuity Election Registry]] · [[wiki/Government Registries of Future Intent|Government Registries of Future Intent]] · [[wiki/Human Digital Remains|Human Digital Remains]]
## Sources / Provenance
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02514-4