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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 JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] irlimba@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wish I could. My family uses messenger :(

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] irlimba@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] animist@lemmy.one 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] irlimba@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I don't disagree. And I totally understand and support people who choose to leave the platform altogether. I will more than likely leave at a certain point, the same way I left reddit.

I was only trying to open up discussion on the topic. I think that for most of us (younger generation) understand a the privacy issues with platforms like Facebook, Google, Tiktok. But I do also believe that for most it's extremely impractical to abandon that platform. Not everyone can be a pioneer.

[–] RojaBunny@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] animist@lemmy.one 19 points 1 year ago

Lol i told my family and friends if they want to talk to me they have to install signal. Those that want to talk to me did and those that don't didn't. Problem solved.

[–] _wintermute@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Were you unable to communicate with them before messenger? :( must have been hard times.