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Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever

Some interesting takes here, including this:

Should we treat digital remains by the same code that museums use for human remains? Doing so would severely limit the ways in which companies can use (or exploit) our data. If digital remains are like “the informational corpse of the deceased,” they write, they “may not be used solely as a means to an end, such as profit, but regarded instead as an entity holding an inherent value.”

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612257/digital-version-after-death/

Of course mentions the Black Mirror episode. However I always go back to the original Max Headroom episode: Deities

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4jl2mn