Jusletter IT

Digital legacy has to be understood as a specific partial aspect of the current discourse on the legal classification and assignment of digital data. The article first gives an overview on the Swiss legal situation de lege lata and, subsequently, shows the inadequacies of the existing regulatory framework in relation to digital successions. Following, a summary of the present judical practice is imparted and future national and international solution approaches for the handling of a person's «digital shadow» are discussed. (ah)