Statutory and testamentary limits on creating generative conversational agents and digital replicas trained on deceased individuals' private electronic correspondence.
The Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA) restricts executor access to the content of electronic communications absent express testamentary consent. Under California AB 1836, commercial digital replica rights persist for 70 years after death, rendering unauthorized generative voice clones or avatar replicas of deceased persons actionable in tort by surviving heirs.
