A 41 year old convicted child predator was arrested in Houston last week after Gmail tipped off police that he was trading child porn via his email account. John Henry Skillern emailed a pornographic photo of a child to a friend. br br Gmail scanned the image then tipped off Houston PD that they should check him out. Police obtained a warrant and found child porn on Skillern’s phone and tablet. br br The registered sex offender is now being held on $200,000 bond. But while nobody is going to miss Skillern while he’s rotting in prison again, others are surprised that Gmail is scanning our email for law-breaking, even though Gmail’s terms of use state that users’ email will be scanned for “security”. br br Nobody is excusing child porn, but what about MP3s, books, political activities, and communications dealing with legal gray areas, like operating emails of a weed dispensary in a state where pot is legal?br br Edward Snowden’s revelation that the NSA has a back door into America’s biggest ISPs and internet companies, giving the feds a peek at your biz whenever they deem you a “security risk”. br br Child pornographers deserve to rot, but if you’re politically active on the internet can you be sure that Gmail won’t turn you over during the next witch hunt?br br ----------------------------------------­---------------------br br Welcome to TomoNews, where we animate the most entertaining news on the internets. Come here for an animated look at viral headlines, US news, celebrity gossip, salacious scandals, dumb criminals and much more! Subscribe now for daily news animations that will knock your socks off.