Re:What is ZIL anyway?
by aidenn0 on Friday April 19, 2019 @11:15PM
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IANAL, but...
In the US, it's reasonably well established that you have no privacy rights after death[1].
That doesn't necessarily make it safe to publish details about someone after they are dead though as property rights do exist through the estate of the deceased, so you may have to end up defending yourself from a defamation suit.
In terms of it being "okay" there are unwritten rules about allowing some not-well-defined period of mourning before publishing private details, particularly ones that reflect poorly on the deceased.
Publishing e.g. private correspondence of people from just 100 years ago seems completely non-controversial though.
In the US, it's reasonably well established that you have no privacy rights after death[1].
That doesn't necessarily make it safe to publish details about someone after they are dead though as property rights do exist through the estate of the deceased, so you may have to end up defending yourself from a defamation suit.
In terms of it being "okay" there are unwritten rules about allowing some not-well-defined period of mourning before publishing private details, particularly ones that reflect poorly on the deceased.
Publishing e.g. private correspondence of people from just 100 years ago seems completely non-controversial though.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_privacy