Many of our daily interactions are reliant on the processing of personal data from emails, to social media, our phones and SMART devices. What happens to that data after we die?

Although many of us don’t like to think about it, we will leave behind a huge digital footprint with data that could be useful to future generations. Today we hear how AI can help shape our digital legacy and how digital literacy can improve management, preservation and access to the data that outlives us.

Our guest is an expert in human data interactions and PhD candidate at University College Dublin, School of Information and Communication Studies, Danny Snow.

THINGS WE SPOKE ABOUT

● The digital legacy we leave after death

● Complications of ownership and access

● Uses of posthumous data including medical research

● How AI can shape digital legacies and mass data collection

● Data donor cards and design in digital footprints

GUEST DETAILS

Danny Snow is a PhD candidate at University College Dublin, School of Information and Communication Studies, and Danny is looking at human data interactions and AI and that includes exploring the concept of digital literacy and examining how digital content is managed, preserved and accessed after a person dies.

https://ie.linkedin.com/in/danny-snow-1583931a3

MORE INFORMATION

You can learn more about your digital data legacy at https://datadonorcard.org/

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QUOTES

In more recent history, the volume of data is related to a specific period of time, whereas as we move forward, it's likely to relate to the entirety of someone's life. - Danny Snow

Personal data, even when alive, doesn't relate just to you. It relates to your family, anyone you're interacting with, anyone you're in the same location as, and it's the aggregation of that data that is important. - Danny Snow

The legal protections around posthumous data aren't the same. - Danny Snow

AI has the potential for recognizing these patterns, that in such a large volume that may not otherwise be recognizable. - Danny Snow

One of the big issues is that we don't necessarily understand what our digital footprint encompasses. - Danny Snow

KEYWORDS

#Digital #legacy #AI #data #ethical #digitalfootprint #privacy