The rise of generative AI allows for the recreation of a person’s digital presence after death, which poses ethical and legal challenges. Victoria Haneman argues for a limited right to digital deletion for a deceased person's estate to prevent exploitation of their digital remains. The increasing amount of stored online data and the potential dangers associated with it necessitate this legal change. Current laws like RUFADAA have limitations, especially when many individuals pass away without a will, leaving their digital assets unprotected.
Digital resurrection by or through AI requires the personal data of the deceased, and the amount of data that we are storing online is increasing exponentially with each passing year.
It has been said that data is the new uranium, extraordinarily valuable and potentially dangerous. A right to delete will provide the decedent with a time-limited right for deletion of personal data.
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