A term or concept · 2024 · AI
Digital orphans
The problem of personal data held for the dead, and of services continuing, changing or ending for people who can no longer consent.
A rights problem with no owner. Nobody is a legal person in a database, and the gap between the person who was and the account that persists is where the next twenty years of parasocial harm is going to live.
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