Data After Death: Remembrance & Resurrection

The University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Jim Dan Hill Library presents the third speaker in a free multipart series entitled, “Data Deluge: Privacy in a Connected World.” Alexis Elder from the University of Minnesota Duluth will lead the discussion “Data After Death: Remembrance & Resurrection.”

This community event will take place in the Jim Dan Hill Library’s main floor and will be livestreamed on YouTube.

Elder’s talk will focus on how individuals should engage with people’s data after death. Information ethicists have emphasized the social nature of data, which makes it difficult to assign ownership. Privacy theorists have urged individuals to move beyond a simplistic model of information flow, emphasizing the importance of context and relationality.

This presentation will draw on Daoist philosophical accounts of interconnectedness to help people move beyond individualist accounts of data stewardship for the dead and reflect on the roles data can play in remembrance.

This event, sponsored by the Tommy G. Thompson Center for Public Leadership, is a multipart speaker series discussing the timely issues of data and privacy in the digital age.

For more information and to register, visit uwsuper.edu/alexis-elder.