France's CNIL Hosts Debate on Data After Death
French data protection authority CNIL will host a public discussion on Oct. 15 about ethical issues surrounding post-mortem data, it announced Tuesday.
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Topics will include what's done with a person's data after death, and the ethical and societal questions relating to its processing, transmission and deletion, CNIL said.
One panel will debate post-mortem data management and transmission, grief, the digital afterlife, and the recent desire for digital immortality enabled by AI.
A second panel will tackle collective memory, from the conservation of digital data to the creation of a common heritage, as well as questions raised by personal data in that context, CNIL said.