The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says
People die but their data may endure, which troubles legal scholar Victoria Haneman.
The emergence of generative AI means a person’s digital presence can be recreated and revived, even if they or their family don’t want that kind of memorial.
Haneman, Chair of Fiduciary Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, argues US law should give a dead person’s estate a limited right to digital deletion as a defense against the exploitation of digital remains.
She makes that case in an article titled “The Law of Digital Resurrection,” published earlier this year in the Boston College Law Review.
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