http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/yahoo-refuses-family-access-to-slain-sons-email/ Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:35:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/yahoo-refuses-family-access-to-slain-sons-email/#comment-684 David Rittenhouse Mon, 27 Dec 2004 00:21:31 +0000 /?p=250#comment-684 Too bad that there is no mention of WHY the parents wanted their late son's emails...the natural sympathy everyone feels for a parent wishing to have one last glimpse into the final thoughts of their child might be diminished if it happened to be that their were additional motivations involved (such as if the parents were perhaps seeking information to support a lawsuit against a defense contractor for a fauilty product which didn't protect their son). Grief and a desire for revenge (or greed) each generate different emotional responses to the parents, and without more details, I'd say Yahoo was right to uphold privacy. Common sense dictates that if the son WANTED the info to go to the parents, he would have emailed it to them. The fact that he didn't seems to indicate that his wishes were for them not to have it, and for Yahoo to do otherwise would be contrary to his last wishes. Yahoo did the right thing...at least as far as the available information indicates. --David Too bad that there is no mention of WHY the parents wanted their late son’s emails…the natural sympathy everyone feels for a parent wishing to have one last glimpse into the final thoughts of their child might be diminished if it happened to be that their were additional motivations involved (such as if the parents were perhaps seeking information to support a lawsuit against a defense contractor for a fauilty product which didn’t protect their son). Grief and a desire for revenge (or greed) each generate different emotional responses to the parents, and without more details, I’d say Yahoo was right to uphold privacy. Common sense dictates that if the son WANTED the info to go to the parents, he would have emailed it to them. The fact that he didn’t seems to indicate that his wishes were for them not to have it, and for Yahoo to do otherwise would be contrary to his last wishes. Yahoo did the right thing…at least as far as the available information indicates.
–David

]]> http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/yahoo-refuses-family-access-to-slain-sons-email/#comment-673 Fred Boness Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:57:00 +0000 /?p=250#comment-673 This is what courts are for. This is what courts are for.

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