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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/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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

but fb messenger is not e2e encrypted at all. If the company is doing e2e then they can't read your messages

[–] theherk 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is if you enable secret messages for a conversation, I believe, but not the default chat mode. In either case people should use other apps.

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

but only on mobile apps afaik. So if you use it, be careful

[–] Tekkip20 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is true, FB messenger is as open as it will get with seeing your messages, WhatsApp is dubious too so either Signal or Session are best e2e messenger apps imo.

[–] Legendsofanus 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have never heard of them, are they social media apps?

[–] Tekkip20 2 points 1 year ago

The two apps I've mentioned are exclusively messenger apps. Think of Facebooks messenger but more secure with no big company servers looking at your chat and messages.