# Digital Legacy **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Estate Planning / Data **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Established social and legal concept ## Definition **Digital Legacy** is the body of accounts, content, data, credentials, intellectual property, digital assets, and reputational traces that remain associated with a person after death. ## Continuity Significance Digital legacy is the ordinary-law doorway into continuity because it determines what source material survives and who can lawfully access or control it. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Estate law, platform legacy settings, fiduciary digital-asset law, and postmortem data statutes govern fragments. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Legacy management governs surviving assets and data, not a presumptive surviving person. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Human Digital Remains|Human Digital Remains]] · [[wiki/Digital Testament|Digital Testament]] · [[wiki/Post-Biological Estate Planning|Post-Biological Estate Planning]] · [[wiki/Postmortem Data Directive|Postmortem Data Directive]]