In an effort to make tragedies more visceral, to have their impact felt more readily, news organizations have taken to mining social media and other online resources to create digital memorials. While these humanize what might otherwise move through a newsfeed as a simple count of casualties, IAPP Staff Writer Courtney Gabrielson, CIPM, wonders if the media and others are doing more privacy harm than good with these listicles that boil lives down into publicly available data points. While everyone, surely, should think about how their digital footprint will carry on after they're gone — she argues for Privacy Perspectives — the media and other organizations should also think about their own ethical obligations when they seek to honor and memorialize the dead.
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