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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is that private messages should be private, meaning Meta should've had no ability whatsoever to share those messages even if served a warrant. Those messages should be E2E encrypted.

[–] forksandspoons 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fwiw, Messeger does have e2e encryption, just opt in only afaik. Whether or not you trust meta with that is another matter, but it is there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I haven't trusted Meta since they IPO'd. I deleted my account sometime back in 2015 or so, had to recreate it when I went on-site as a contractor for a week, and promptly deleted it again.

But it's good that they have E2E, it should be on by default and not able to be disabled. Regardless, they probably have anything encrypted indexed anyway so they don't lose that little bit of info about you.