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A Research on the Digital Information of the Deceased

  • Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information
  • Abbr : JKSCI
  • 2010, 15(12), pp.247-253
  • Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
  • Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science

Young Hwan Kim 1

1조선대학교

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ABSTRACT

The demand that needs 'Digital Legacy', a notion that an Internet user can transfer his private blogs, e-mail and financial assets to inheritors and party interested when he died suddenly in the accident, has been growing recently. This issue has become a social hot potato since Justine Ellsworth's father in USA sued Yahoo for the right to access his son's Yahoo e-mail account after Justine Ellsworth had died in Iraq, in November, 2004 and the problems happened to deal with suicide-related blogs and homepages when great entertainers in Korea committed suicide and soldiers' parents in the situation of warship Chonan tragedy in Korea demanded access to soldiers' homepages and e-mail accounts. The point at issue focuses on the property matters about the digital information of the deceased and the relationship between the deceased and the Internet Service Provider(ISP). This research looks into the trend of judicial precedents and laws related to the digital information of the deceased and suggests the preliminary data of the next research.

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