Personal Email Privacy Decisions

In my opinion I think that the parents should have been given access to his email. The

reason I feel this way is because there are things that us as humans do that we keep private.

The parents have the right to know what their son was doing in his private life so that they

could better understand their son and find out things that maybe he did not feel they needed

to know about his life. They way that Yahoo handled the situation was correct in that, they

followed exactly what they say in their privacy statement when creating an account. They

cannot just give out information it must be requested via legal means. For future cases of

this nature I think that there should be something that grants access to personal email
Yahoo! would be violating your civil, human

and/or contractual rights by releasing emails to the general public. Once these agreements are

violated, other people from the general public could request access to email accounts for various

reasons. For this and many other issues, these agreements are in place. Where would the overall

happiness and fairness be at this point? The moral rightness of giving his parents the password

for the benefit of goodness and the difference of right and wrong doesn’t coincide with Yahoo’s!

email privacy agreements. By giving out one’s password and the possibility of exposing Justin’s

personal emails would create a breakdown in the privacy of all of Yahoo! users. This could

create problems with attracting new customers and keeping existing ones.

In conclusion, if Justin wanted to share his private emails with his parents, he could have

“Courtesy copied” his emails to them. I believe the judge was wrong to grant Justin

Ellsworth's parents a court order to access his emails. As we understand, “Privacy is the interest

that individuals have in sustaining a ‘personal space’, free from interference by other people and