This is a topic that is not common to hear in Latin American
countries, but has taken an unusual boom in recent times, due to
technological advances and digital issues that the whole world has
had. In spite of this, in Germany a legal case has been presented
that involves this topic and that perhaps marks a precedent in
history.
The German justice published a long-awaited opinion on the
"digital inheritance", giving the reason to a couple who
demanded to Facebook access to the account of his deceased
daughter. The parents went initially to Facebook, to retrieve the
contents and conversations of their daughter in the social network,
before she was run over by a subway car in Berlin, at age 15, in
2012. After the tragedy, the couple I expected to get an answer
about the circumstances of his brutal death, was it an accident or
suicide? they needed evidence to explain whether the girl wished to
end her life or, on the contrary, it had all been part of an
unfortunate