Post-Mortem Data Protection and Succession in Digital Assets Under Spanish Law

This contribution analyses a hot topic across Europe: the issue of post-mortem data protection and succession in digital assets focusing on Spanish Law. Their protection through the instruments provided by the Spanish Organic Law 3/2018, of 5 December, on the Protection of Personal Data and Guarantee of Digital Rights, and the Catalonian Law 10/2017, of 27 June, on digital wills and amending the Second and Fourth Books of the Catalonian Civil Code, provide good examples of the interaction amongst data protection, contract law and inheritance law in this field, which will be the subject matter of our study.