DIGITAL INHERITANCE AND THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY: CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES IN THE INFORMATION AGE

Abstract

This article aims to analyze digital inheritance and its legal implications in inheritance law, especially regarding digital assets that may be subject to post-mortem transmission. The information society or digital age is an increasingly evident reality today. The world is digitized, and with this digitization, new challenges and demands have arisen for the law. This study will address the challenges imposed on inheritance law, which has accompanied humanity for many centuries, especially concerning the issue of digital inheritance, which raises questions about property, privacy, and the perpetuation of online identities. Indeed, this article also intends to analyze the destination of the assets that make up the digital estate of the deceased, as well as which of these assets will be eligible for distribution, and how the transmissibility of existential and economically valuable digital assets to the heirs will occur upon the death of the deceased in a way that does not violate the fundamental right to privacy. From this perspective, the research uses the hypothetical-deductive method, through a bibliographic approach.