Ghostbots and the law of informational capitalism: what principles, post-mortem rights and survivors’ rights concerning griefbots should be guaranteed?

Ghostbots (griefbots) are technological innovations that are not currently subject to legal regulations (except for regulations limited to ghostbots of public figures, which are in force in the State of New York). Therefore, there is a need to establish a set of legal principles to guide future legal regulations on ghostbots. Undoubtedly, the issue of limitations on ghostbot functioning should be especially considered in relation to survivors’ rights and post-mortem rights, as limitations of informational capitalism. The objective of this work is to propose a catalogue of survivors’ rights and post-mortem rights that should limit the free functioning of ghostbots. Undoubtedly, this work can be valuable to legal theorists, legal practitioners and policymakers.