Family gains access to dead Marine's e-mail
Well, I'm relieved to see that this situation has been straightened out. However, let's hope that the resolution between the slain Marine's family and Yahoo! does not open a Pandora's Box in future siutuations where the entity (or entities, as the case may be) requesting access to a deceased person's private communications, post-mortem, is not the family. This could begin a slippery-slope on the issue of the status of personal communications privacy, even after death, and could insight a lot of fiery rhetoric on both sides of the issue. An article on CNN this morning reports that "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."
posted by Fergie @ 4/21/2005 08:49:00 AM
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