In addition to aiming at medical emergencies, EmergencyLink hopes to help in missing persons' cases, by allowing members to quickly generate reports on people whose information they share, and email these reports to authorities.

WSJ: A Free Service to Store Medical Data in Case of an Emergency

Initial reports suggested that the emails contained private messages sent by David Petraeus, suggesting that his email security may have been compromised introducing a national security concern that would warrant such a thorough investigation.

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