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around Iraq and send correspondences through Web mail providers such as Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft's Hotmail.
Only officers outside the front lines get official Marine e-mail accounts used for interoffice communications. If the officer is killed, the Marines delete the accounts after retrieving messages that could be important for planning.
E-mail has become a source of information about soldiers on the front lines. Images of the war and correspondences to loved ones have helped paint a picture of life in Iraq and Afghanistan, while helping families stay in touch with loved ones serving abroad.
Soldiers killed in action may also have important information in their e-mail accounts to help families settle personal matters, such as closing out accounts or other housekeeping matters.
- Thank you Yahoo.
- My e-mail accounts are MY email accounts. Nobody has the right to hijack my account, even if it's my own family trying to remember me. When I clicked the "I agree to Terms of Service" button I also believe that my service provider will protect my privacy. When I die, the information on my computer, as well as online accounts should die with me.
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- Privacy and law
- Having served during the the Gulf war in '91 I remember creating a will and also giving my parents power of attorney. Now in this case I do not know if a will was created or a power of attorney. Those could possibly give the parents all the rights they need regardless.
I too believe have heard that the rights of the deceased are not the same as those alive. In this case, I feel Yahoo is perfectly valid in their response, but could at least extend the deletion period.
Someone died, unexpectedly, and as such has left unfinished business. Yahoo should have the deceny and good business sense to see that extending the deletion policy beyond 90 days to allow the family to take appropriate action neither violates their precious privacy policy ( which is self imposed and may be amended at anytime making it weak in a court of law, look at other privacy suits ) nor tarnishes their image as this has done.
Privacy is important but nothing is truly private in the end ( can we say Strom Thurmond's daughter). - Like this Reply to this comment
- Yahoo has got to be kidding
- Yahoo will only release the guy's dead son's e mail only if a court MAKES them? The guy's family is getting offers for help from a mess of people and I hope Yahoo gets turned insideOUT for this outrage. Further, I want to know how the soulless, petty little POS who made this decision can sleep at night.
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- OBsurd
- Obviously, Yahoo has got to be crazy. I understand the policy regulations and privacy laws, but under certain circumstances policies should be allowed to bend and make concessions. Yahoo, where is your patritism, your concern for grieving families of brave soldiers? Yahoo, where is your Christmas spirit? Yahoo, show some heart and allow the family access to the email account contents whether you publicly divulge the fact that you are providing access or merely send the family print outs of the emails contained as an annomious "Christmas gift." If the family had not directly approached the company and asked for the password, but had somehow sent an email to them saying they forgot their password, they would be in the account by now as they would have answered the security question and have a new password sent to them!!
My thoughts are with the family through this difficult time and Thank-you to all the brave soldiers fighting overseas for a better world. - Like this Reply to this comment
- i agree
- i feel for the family, but i agree with yahoo's decision
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- Yahoo not supporting our troop? Can that be?
- I'm surprised Congress hasn't ruled on this already.
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- Why do they Wish to get into his acco. in the first place?
- Yahoo! is doing the right thing! See ppl thoise days are not smart and yahoo is called "unpatiotic" because they respect users right to privey, Some ppl r stupid.
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- Regarding the account
- The only reason why my brother wanted into the account was that justin had stated he had alot of pictures and letters from people all around the world thanking him and giving him support while serving over in Iraq and justin wanted his dad and himself to make a scrapbook out of it when justin return,of course that didnt happen the way we wanted it as far as justin's return but he now home and in a peaceful place.But as far as the family owning anyone an explaination to this battle with yahoo this is none but this fight is over with them and as a family we have moved forward and started to work on other projects regarding justin and his memory.
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- MAYBE AN "ONLINE WILL" WITH EACH ACCOUNT HONORING THE OWNERS WISHES ?
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- Its a lesson for us to keep secret informaiton very secret and atleast at some where, in a locker or in a Will, so that our family or kids may not suffer after our death. My brother died and i am having the same problem but i agree to the yahoo concerns. Its our responsibility to keeps things straights even after death. wish all of you very good luck.
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- My brother died nearly 4 years ago, and today I got an email from his yahoo account with a spam ad embedded. It was sent to all his contacts from 4 years ago! How is this possible if they delete inactive accounts after 90 days? I never had the password and it never mattered before, but it was awful getting the message. I searched the yahoo site but could not find a person to contact to ask them to look into and deactivate the account. ANy suggestions?
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