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

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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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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[–] Confused_Emus 67 points 2 years ago (6 children)

So does mine, I deleted it anyway. You've got their phone numbers for texting and calling.

[–] irlimba 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Family group chat so it isn't that easy. On the other hand I never open Facebook so 🤷

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It still data mines on your phone even when you don't open it

[–] RojaBunny 4 points 2 years ago

If you have android, the duckduckgo browser app has a beta opt-in app tracking blocker service. I activated it a few days ago and it's been horrifying how many trackers there are. Almost 50,000 since I turned it on maybe 4 days ago.

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