Otero Crespo, MartaAndrade, Francisco António Carneiro Pacheco deFreitas, Pedro Miguel FernandesAbreu, Joana Rita de Sousa Covelo de2026-01-142026-01-142024Otero Crespo, M. (2024). Post-Mortem Data Protection and Succession in Digital Assets Under Spanish Law. In: Carneiro Pacheco de Andrade, F.A., Fernandes Freitas, P.M., de Sousa Covelo de Abreu, J.R. (eds) Legal Developments on Cybersecurity and Related Fields. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 60. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41820-4_10978-3-031-41819-8https://hdl.handle.net/10347/45110This 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.engPost-mortem data protectionContract lawInheritance lawDigital assetsDigital contentDigital willDigital inheritance56 Ciencias jurídicas y derechobook part10.1007/978-3-031-41820-4_10open access