This is wrong. Yahoo gives out email info of dead...

[Showtime]

.... Marine to the Parents.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/21/email.account.ap/index.html
WIXOM, Michigan (AP) -- E-mail provider Yahoo! has pledged to give the family of a Marine killed in Iraq full access to their son's e-mail account, ending a court battle that began after his parents sought messages he wrote before his death.

*rant on*

I was hoping they wouldn't do it. I would be so pissed if my parents tried that ****. Not that there is anything to hide really, but it's none of their business. I know his parents wouldn't have asked to read his personal emails when he was alive.

*rant off*

-j

[Memo]

Right, unless the deceased expressed any indication that they would like to have their parents read their personal e-mails prior to death, I don't think the access should be granted.

But then again, if you're dead, who gives a ****?

[mcs328]

Eh...I guess I would let him have access to it.

[Jeffbx]

Wow, that could set an interesting precident. I guess I never thought about it, but do you have privacy rights when you're dead?

I mean, sure, it's likely a bunch of spam & offers for free ipods, but what if he was cheating on his wife, or selling weapons to the Iraqis, or downloading kiddie porn? I would imagine there are instances where people might not want anyone reading their e-mail, even after they're dead.

Maybe there should be a provision in your will for this....

"...no heroic measures to keep me alive, and for god's sake, stay out of my e-mail accounts! Oh, and also throw away that box in the back of my closet, but don't open it."

[WhiskeyPapa]

Too bad he didn't have a Hotmail account. Anyone who knows the name of your "favorite pet" can get access to your account.

[welfareloser]

hmm. i don't know what i think about that. i mean, if he left everything to them in his will... if they're going to be the ones cleaning out his apartment and coming across his heroin and porn stash anyway...


hmmmm.

[JaQnAbOx]

Too bad he didn't have a Hotmail account. Anyone who knows the name of your "favorite pet" can get access to your account.
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