# Data Trustee **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Fiduciary Governance / Data **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Policy proposal and structural analogue ## Definition A **Data Trustee** is a fiduciary or trusted actor authorized to steward a person's data according to specified interests or directives across incapacity or death. ## Continuity Significance Data trustees supply role-separated custody between the biological principal, heirs, platforms, and future reconstruction systems. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence The Human Digital Remains governance literature explicitly recommends data trustees; trust and fiduciary law supply analogues. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note The title does not itself create statutory fiduciary duties unless law or contract does so. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Human Digital Remains|Human Digital Remains]] · [[wiki/Continuity Fiduciary|Continuity Fiduciary]] · [[wiki/Continuity Agent|Continuity Agent]] · [[wiki/Postmortem Data Directive|Postmortem Data Directive]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02514-4