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1. Comment - Yahoo! Denies E-Mail Access to Family of Dead Marine

   (Dec 22, 2004 - 7:48 PM)

   The father of this marine was on "The Abrams Report" on MSNBC last night. He has written authority from his son giving his father permission to go into the account if he were to die.
   
   That must have been a very difficult email to write. The only question I have is why didn't the son give the father the password and trust that his father not go into the account?
   
   Anyway, the father wants to go into the account so that he can retrieve all the letters that he has sent to people so that he can add them to the scrap book that they've been keeping of all the letters and things that the son did while he was in the military.
   
   Now, yes, the son signed a privacy policy when registering for the account... BUT, Yahoo! should realize that the father has power of attorney over the sons possessions. The email account belongs to the son, but the father is acting on his sons behalf to get into the account. Banks have privacy policies too... how would you guys like to have the bank say that because a bank account or safe deposit isn't in your name, even with power of attorney, you can't get into the account to get the money? It's the same basic idea.