State succession

If this is how states die, and if succession is automatic because states are natural to humans, what exactly is it that is succeeded, or created anew each time? The deed of succession, if any, is usually a technical legal document of procedural importance. What is important, however, from an informational perspective, is that the three types of processing operations confirming state legitimacy are assumed by the state’s successor. In practice, a state succeeds another when the creation, storage and dissemination of its citizens’ information is assumed by it. At least two informational risks may arise from state succession. The first is that the state’s files may be used to persecute the population. The second is that state records may be tampered with for some purpose (in order to prove a point, build a narrative etc.) by the successor state. Because establishing the facts can be an impossible task (the successor state may claim that it was the previous state that had falsified the records), this situation offers a useful illustration of the practical use of the platform right to security of information (see §22.00.09, and also §14.00.12).

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