Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges

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Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges
theverge.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605

A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.

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One thing I hate is while I dont trsut metas encryotion, it isnt even a default which at this point in American history is just irresonabile and reckless. It sucks we can't teach about open source in schools.

And if you make enough spelling errors, your post essentially encrypts itself! :D

And if you make enough spelling errors, your post essentially encrypts itself! :D

*dies from insults

All these two needed to do was install a different app. Signal was just sitting there waiting for them to use, for free.

Yeah but most non tech people don't know what that or end to end encryption is cause schools didnt teach this stuff. and likely never will without causing end to end encryption to get banned