# Right to No Reconstruction **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Consent / Reconstruction **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Normative continuity right grounded in current consent and postmortem-data analogues ## Definition The **Right to No Reconstruction** is the right to forbid creation of a person-claiming model, agent, twin, or replica from one's protected data or biological source material. ## Continuity Significance It prevents mere technical capability or data possession from being interpreted as consent. ## Resurrection Without Consent An explicit failure case is the creation of a griefbot, avatar, posthumous digital twin or person-claiming agent after the source refused reconstruction or never supplied the necessary authority. Family grief, commercial demand, public availability of data and technical plausibility do not by themselves create consent. The risk intensifies when the replica speaks in the first person, makes identity claims or is used to alter the source person's relationships and reputation. Enforcement should distinguish ordinary preservation or historical description from interactive simulation that claims the person's voice, agency or continuing presence. See [[wiki/Griefbot|Griefbot]] and [[wiki/Posthumous Digital Human Twin|Posthumous Digital Human Twin]]. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence France and Spain allow postmortem data instructions; replica laws regulate unauthorized likenesses; HDR proposals call for advance data directives. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note The right requires careful exceptions for ordinary historical archives, research, or public records where applicable. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Continuity Disposition|Continuity Disposition]] · [[wiki/Postmortem Data Directive|Postmortem Data Directive]] · [[wiki/Human Digital Remains|Human Digital Remains]] · [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]]