Digital legacies: the evolving challenges and legal treatment of our online assets after we die.

最近的研究表明，人们每天至少花3到5个小时上网，从而创建和共享个人数据(电子邮件、帖子、照片、视频和其他类型的互联网活动)。在上网期间，人们建立了一种“数字生活”，最终将面临“数字死亡”或“数字来世”。拟议的研究将集中在对数字指控的探索和法律理解上。到目前为止，如何处理这些指控还没有确切的法律答案。它们可能会根据平台、国家或用户自己的决心而有所不同。

Recent studies show that people spend at least 3 to 5 daily hours online, thus creating and sharingpersonal data (emails, post, photos, videos and other types of internet activity).During their time online, people build up a "digital life" and they eventually will face a "digital death" or"digital afterlife". The proposed research will focus on the exploration and legal understanding of digitallegacies.Up to now, there are no precise legal answers on how to deal with them. They may vary depending on theplatform, the country or the user's own determination.