If Yahoo does not give them their son's e-mails, I will never use any of their services or log on to any of their web sponsors again. We must organize a boycott of Yahoo all across the net. Make them feel this family's pain! Yahoo is run by a bunch of Liberal A$$h0les anyway. This is a crime against a suffering family. Yahoo must be made to pay.....
Here we go with another worthless boycott that will achieve absolutely nothing....
The question is whether or not there is any privacy involved when you open and operate a private e-mail account. It's a privacy issue. Perhaps there are things he didn't want to share with his family. It's not Yahoo's place to violate his privacy and expose him in that fashion. We have no idea what his relationship with his family was, nor does Yahoo. The default assumption has to be one of privacy. Unless the man specified the opening of his account, his privacy should be respected.
If Yahoo "GIVES" them their son's e-mails without a court order I'll never use their services again. This is a privacy issue. If the parents wanted to see their son's e-mail they should have asked him for his password. It would violate the privacy of everyone the son corresponded with to illegally release his e-mail. If the parents illegally gain access to the son's e-mail they should be prosecuted.
You're right about Yahoo! There used to be email groups with child porn til Ashcroft &Co. stepped in. I firmly believe their privacy policy is horse hockey because I used to have a group there which was not even listed in the directory but received spam addressed to the "list owner" so either they gave my personal email address out or they got hacked. They stink!
I've already e-mailed Yahoo and informed them that if they do violate the Marine's privacy in such a flagrant manner, I will immediately cancel all services with them and change my home page. Yahoo has been my home page since November 1995.
You are on your own....Im with Yahoo on this one.