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Dispute Continues Over Posthumous Yahoo! Mail
XPisthenewNT points out BBC coverage of the earlier-mentioned dispute between Yahoo! and the family of Justin Ellsworth. An excerpt: "Police sergeant John Ellsworth has sparked a privacy debate in the U.S. that has prompted many to reconsider who can access their e-mail. Mr. Ellsworth is locked in a legal fight with Yahoo! after his son, L/Cpl Justin Ellsworth, a U.S. marine serving in Falluja, was killed by a roadside bomb."
After I'm dead I don't think I'll "care" about any such things.. I am afterall dead at that point.
That being said can't yahoo show compasion? I mean the kid [*] died commiting war crimes for his country. Show a little patriotism or somesuch...
[*] Am I the only one sadden to see on the american local news the names of 21-23 yr olds who died only to realize "hey wait, I'm 23 and just finishing college... wtf is that kid doing fighting in a "war""?
At 18 it would have never crossed my mind to go overseas and invade a foreign nation [for which I wasn't at war against]. Well that and I was still in high school at 18 [we had 13 grades in my school district, where grade 13 was essentially first year university level material].
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
a) your bank likely isn't required to ask these things of you, your next of kin can still obtain the contents of your accounts/deposit boxes/etc without too much trouble. Why do they ask? It's much simpler and easier in the end if the bank can clearly show "Mr. X instructed us that upon his death Mrs. X gets immediate access to his holdings".
In this case, yahoo are just being dinks, and deserve some bad press over it.