But yes, there has been this ability for quite a long time for
after death, either the relatives or the friends to make choices.
To either,
essentially, get the profile deleted, which is often what the mom wants, because
it keeps upsetting her when it comes up saying like it's this person's birthday.
I've had those for people who've passed away.
Indeed [CROSSTALK] And it's quite upsetting.
That's right, you hear that story over and over again.
And particularly, I think the older generation who don't have the savvy to
find ways of avoiding seeing that sort of stuff.
It's really, really upsetting to them.
There was a case in Brazil which stays with me, where again, and I think we'll
see more and more of this, the friends had asked the site to be memorialized.
They wanted it to be a shrine.
This is what you see, you see people, they leave poems, they leave photos.
And the mum, every time it came up with something was weeping.
And she went to the courts and said I cannot bear this weeping wall anymore.
And the judge compelled it to be shut down.
Interesting.
Yeah, so I think we're going to see more conflicts in the digital space
between friends and family than we've traditionally seen in succession law,
in the conventional law of wills and testaments.
Yeah, that would make sense, yeah.
I think that's going to be a big deal.
Quite often the older generation doesn't even know, they're not on Facebook.
And it's a walled garden, so they don't have access to see that content
It just becomes about the friends and- Yeah, yeah.
And then suppose the friends get it memorialized,
maybe then they hear about it,
maybe then they get access because they joined Facebook or something like that.
And then they discover there are all these pictures of their daughter taking drugs or
vomiting or.
Being gay when they didn't expect it.
So all of these kind of issues are coming up in various anecdotes.
And even the odd few legal cases.
And that's again what drove some of the research me and EDINA did.
I suppose it started with looking at this through what you might call
a property lens.
Yep. What you asked, how can you control,
is it where your property after your death.
And we've became more and
more focused on what we've been calling post-mortem privacy.
Yeah. Which is something that
basically doesn't exist at all, privacy is for the living.
Yeah. Human rights are for the living.
The right to a respect for your private life is for the living.
This kind of makes sense but- >> Not in a digital world.
But in a digital world things change, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, at no point in history before have 2 billion people left
sensitive, recorded, archived, and searchable records of their private lives.
Yeah. It used to be just the odd poet.
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