Herança digital: sucessão das contas e dos bens digitais frente ao direito à privacidade

Abstract

Technology has taken up space in people's lives, whose connection with the large network is so present that their virtual lives are as full as their lives outside. There is personal information, videos and photos shared, conversations and intimacies recorded on a virtual level, in addition to the esteemed social networks that have the capacity to have significant economic value. In the present work, in an exploratory and bibliographic manner, it is discussed which is the best destination for accounts and virtual goods when the owner dies, considering that, in addition to the possibility of being noticed as an extension of the personality of the de cujus your belongings in digital cloud; it is questioned whether this destination may not yet harm the right to privacy of a third party or of the person in question. A conflict arises between the Right of Succession and the Right to Privacy in the succession of Digital Heritage, in which there is a need to use the weighting technique to solve the problem.