The article states, for example, "... even where it feels right to turn over private messages to family members, laws may prevent us from doing so. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act and Stored Communications Act, for instance, prevent us from relying upon family consent to disclose the contents of a person’s communications."
So simply handing over the account isn't a possibility, they'd have to remove the nonpublic communications first.
So simply handing over the account isn't a possibility, they'd have to remove the nonpublic communications first.