# France Article 85 Postmortem Data Directives **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / France / Data Protection **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Level A — enacted statute ## Definition **France Article 85 Postmortem Data Directives** is the statutory architecture allowing a person to issue general or specific instructions concerning preservation, erasure, and communication of personal data after death. ## Continuity Significance It is the closest enacted precursor to a data-layer Continuity Advance Directive because it combines prospective agency, postmortem effect, trusted third parties, and registry logic. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence CNIL's published statutory text confirms that general directives may be registered with a certified trusted digital third party and referenced in a unique registry whose implementation is set by decree. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note The statute governs data, not executable reconstruction, computational personhood, or a public duty to run a continuant. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Postmortem Data Directive|Postmortem Data Directive]] · [[wiki/Continuity Advance Directive|Continuity Advance Directive]] · [[wiki/Continuity Election Registry|Continuity Election Registry]] · [[wiki/Data Trustee|Data Trustee]] · [[wiki/CNIL Nos données après nous|CNIL Nos données après nous]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://www.cnil.fr/fr/la-loi-informatique-et-libertes