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Hats off To Yahoo! Mail: Sticking to Its Privacy Policy Guns |
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The family of a dead marine is publicly demanding the password for his Yahoo! mail account. "I want to be able to remember him in his words," his father claimed, and to do this, he apparently needs all e-mail sent to and by his son. Yahoo! is refusing, sticking to its Privacy Policy, which terminates an account at death and is not sharing.
No Right of Survivorship and Non-Transferability. You agree that your Yahoo! account is non-transferable and any rights to your Yahoo! I.D. or contents within your account terminate upon your death. Upon receipt of a copy of a death certificate, your account may be terminated and all contents therein permanently deleted. Sec. 25, Terms of Service.
The Terms of Service closely mirror the privacy policy in the limited scenarios in which Yahoo! would disclose information: You acknowledge, consent and agree that Yahoo! may access, preserve, and disclose your account information and Content if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the TOS; (c) respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; (d) respond to your requests for customer service; or (e) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Yahoo!, its users and the public. The marine's father, obviously, has none of these reasons, although he could appeal to the legal system. Go Yahoo! It has said to this family that without a subpoena, they get no private information. This protects all of us, and allows us to trust that at our deaths our Yahoo! accounts stay private. Yahoo! has decided (and hopefully the courts would also) that the marine was the best to decide whether his parents should get his password. This is a tricky case for Yahoo! PR, but an easy one for Yahoo! legal; honor contracts and respect the privacy of users.
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