“…5 Automatic upload of photographs to cloud storage or third party applications is often routine on PMD, and in addition to loss or theft of PMD may lead to privacy breaches due to hacking or data leakage. 6 In cases where images are uploaded to cloud storage via a company based outside of Australia, the cloud storage company must abide by the Australian Privacy Principles. 7 When receiving clinical images from colleagues, surgeons are bound by the same ethical and legal principles as if they had taken the photograph themselves.…”