# Postmortem Data Directive **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Data Protection / Prospective Autonomy **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Enacted legal concept in France ## Definition A **Postmortem Data Directive** is a prospective instruction governing the preservation, erasure, or communication of a person's personal data after death. ## Continuity Significance It is the closest enacted analogue to a data-layer Continuity Advance Directive. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence France Article 85 allows general or specific directives and contemplates trusted-third-party registration. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note A directive over data does not automatically authorize model training, reconstruction, or activation. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/France Article 85 Postmortem Data Directives|France Article 85 Postmortem Data Directives]] · [[wiki/Continuity Advance Directive|Continuity Advance Directive]] · [[wiki/Continuity Supersession|Continuity Supersession]] · [[wiki/Data Trustee|Data Trustee]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://www.cnil.fr/fr/la-loi-informatique-et-libertes