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Ellsworth V.
Course: Business Law. (BUS205)

Assignment Title: Introduction to Law and Contracts

Assignment #: Module One Case

Should Yahoo have been forced to turn over Justin Ellsworth’s email to his parents? One in our shoes would venture to say “No”. Yahoo took a very firm stand backing its privacy acts that all account holders are entitled to as email address holders by saying nothing but “No”. I, in my opinion will say that Yahoo acted with legal responsibility in backing their contracted right to protect Justin’s email privacy’s. However there are many others that would cross over into the personnel side of the topic and say that because of the situation and that Justin’s own parents are requesting the information …show more content…
All the next of KIN can do for Facebook is request that a memorial page be presented when searched for by other users. In fine print this sounds bold and that the information is unobtainable by even those that the deceased has placed as the next of KIN. That is what their policy agreements state and that is what as we can see with this paper what Yahoo held as its backing for not giving the account information out. So right or wrong I will say that “Yes” legally Yahoo held with what they had printed in black and white for the companies email privacy policies. As for the conclusion of the case I feel that several things should be addressed even after the final gavel has struck the podium. Yes in a court ordered hearing John and Debbie were legally allowed to access Justin’s Yahoo account. This now being a bench mark the question being asked is, what does Yahoo do from here about their privacy policies. Yahoo has made it very clear that no person after the death of the account holder …show more content…
However one exception does exist and that is if the account holder has specified otherwise allowing their next of KIN access in their will. I think that opinions on this topic can pretty much be summed up in a shotgun pattern on a target. There are several directions Yahoo could of took being persuaded by several things such as public opinion, apathy for the family or even the legal holding powers of an appointed next of KIN. However across the board I feel that Yahoo has upheld every policy that they have said to in their policy. Just out of curiosity I googled Yahoo and some other case similar to gather a more solid foundation and see if the Justin Ellsworth case was just a single showing. In all the cases that I have read here and there into Yahoo has held the exact same stand. The case’s of many varying topics such as government warrants for email traffic between criminals and terrorists. All of these case’s only surrendering the email data upon a search warrant or Yahoo is court ordered to turn the information over. So in conclusion I really don’t think that in falls in line with utilitarianism view of seeking a morally correct course of action consists in the greatest good for the greatest number, that is, in maximizing the total benefit resulting, without regard to the distribution of benefits and burdens. If that was so then Yahoo wouldn’t have much information that wouldn’t be available for public view. This course of action would for-go
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