Soziale Netzwerke im Nachlass

This thesis focuses on social networks as part of an inheritance, a problem known as digital legacy. Unlike previous publications on this subject, it focuses on the dogmatics of the postmortem protection of secrecy, which has received very little consideration so far. Before answering this substantial question, it addresses the issue of the hereditability of continuing obligations. Its central chapter on the postmortem protection of secrecy first clarifies the basics of the protection of secrecy while an individual is alive with its manifestations of the secrecy of telecommunications and data protection. After that, the thesis clarifies how the legal situation changes postmortem and what dogmatics are behind that change. The book closes with a chapter on the regulations on inheritance in the terms and conditions of the providers of social networks.