[seacapn]

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.

[First_Salute]

Bump.

[Red Badger]

I have only one child, an adult. I know she is not perfect, and neither are we, her parents. if this case applied to us, instead of this poor family I would be screaming at every yahoo executive I could find until they relented. Privacy? what about plain old decency to help a bereaved family. That PRIVACY issue is a red herring and a liberal tool used for decades to accumulate more power for themselves at the expense of the people.......

[johnmilken]

Right on. Soldier or not I don't see why Yahoo should give up on privacy rights. The family want to see what emails this guy was sent?

Most passwords are easy to crack if you know the person. Favorite team, pet, hometown, nickname, birth place...people are not very imaginative. I freaked out some friends by hacking into their accounts. If it's doable you can do it in a few minutes.