[jfoutz]

Doctors and Lawyers are allowed and even obligated to break confidentiality in some special cases. We'll probably come up with a collection of special protections and special exceptions for remote storage of our data.

Although, it's pretty scary that some random person could send an email that would then send me to jail. I would hope the standard for possession is higher than "WTF is this? [delete]"

[icebraining]

I would hope the standard for possession is higher than "WTF is this? [delete]"

Well, according to the linked article, the guy was sending the picture, not receiving it.

[saalweachter]

I would still hope that "their email account sent an image" is only sufficient to start an investigation and not end it. Email accounts can be broken into, many people have access to the same computer, etc etc.