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Julia Creet

Julia Creet

Professor of English at York University; scholar of Memory Studies, digital ethics, and genealogical databases

Jun 4, 2026

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[gentle music] Well, it turns out the dead have no rights whatsoever.
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That's the first thing you gotta know.
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So what happens to your data once you die is it depends on who's holding the information.
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You, as an entity, have no rights.
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Your estate might have some limited, very limited rights, but whoever owns the data, whether it be government or corporate, they have the right to either keep or dispose of your data.

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Mm-hmm.
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Then, then you become the legacy contact, and you can kind of control what happens to the profile.
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Like, the profile becomes, um, uh, uh, frozen in a way that people can't, uh...

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