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IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2025: What do we do with the digital dead?

Carl Öhman, Assistant Professor at Uppsala University, at IAPP EC Data Protection Congress 2025
Carl Öhman, Assistant Professor at Uppsala University. Photo: Jean Hurley

Carl Öhman asks, are our digital afterlives really our own, and if not, who should have the right to decide what happens to our data.

The most haunting question at the Congress didn’t concern AI compliance or cross-border data transfers. Instead, it came from political scientist Carl Öhman, who asked a room full of privacy professionals to confront a startling question: “What do we do with the digital dead?”

​Öhman, Assistant Professor at Uppsala