Marine's death sparks e-mail privacy debate

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Yahoo Is Evil

The media should dig deeper. There is no "ownership" of this email beyond Yahoo's. It owns the email, it just grants you access rights to it, and has decided not to grant it to heirs. If Yahoo, for whatever reason, decides to terminate your account (for "violation of TOS") then you lose all access to *any* of the information stored on Yahoo's servers: email, photos, contacts, files, mailing lists, notes, etc. Yahoo doesn't even have to to tell you what you did to lose your acces rights, it can just say "NO ACCESS" and you're toast. Do a search and you will find hundreds of people vainly trying to recover lost data from Yahoo's servers, or even just trying to find what it is they have been accused of. Kafka would be proud!

Yahoo is evil, plain and simple.

Posted by: meehawl   Posted on: 01/12/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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