# Posthumous Privacy **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Privacy / Death **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Jurisdiction-specific legal protection ## Definition **Posthumous Privacy** is protection against unauthorized disclosure, use, or exploitation of information associated with a deceased person. ## Continuity Significance It constrains the use of Human Digital Remains for replicas, twins, training, or reconstruction. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence GDPR itself excludes deceased persons, but national regimes such as France provide postmortem-data protections and directives. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Posthumous privacy can be enforced without recognizing continuing personhood. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Human Digital Remains|Human Digital Remains]] · [[wiki/France Article 85 Postmortem Data Directives|France Article 85 Postmortem Data Directives]] · [[wiki/Human Rights After Death|Human Rights After Death]] · [[wiki/Right to No Reconstruction|Right to No Reconstruction]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://www.cnil.fr/fr/la-loi-informatique-et-libertes