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submitted 1 year ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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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[-] ezmack@lemmy.ml 88 points 1 year ago

Regardless of what you think about abortion laws people just gotta come to terms with the fact that your phone and computer are not reliable partners in crime

[-] whofearsthenight@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

They should be? I mean, not just for the crime, but in general privacy should be the default.

[-] ezmack@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 year ago

I mean yeah it should but you gotta follow the old saying "don't write when you can speak, don't speak when you can nod, don't nod if you can wink" or whatever. You have an expectation of privacy when sending physical mail for example, but it's still a bad idea to put a crime in writing if you don't have to. Even if it can't legally be used as evidence it can be read. We've seen that with 'parallel construction' from law enforcement

[-] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I've actually never heard that saying. I like it a lot.

[-] ezmack@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It's one of those quotes with a lot of different versions floating around I think it's generally attributed to this guy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lomasney

[-] zuhayr@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago
[-] waspentalive@lemmy.one 2 points 11 months ago

The Klingons of Star Trek also have a saying: If you do not wish a thing heard, do not say it.

[-] Qualanqui@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

It should be, I fully agree, unfortunately we live in a digital panopticon.

[-] madcow@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

You can always use something like PGP to encrypt your communication.

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True, sadly not many people show up for my key signing parties, even if I serve three kinds of chips.

[-] Fluffyb@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 year ago

Only if you trust the device your decrypting on. Wouldn't trust windows or Mac with information that could put me in jail.

Madcow -- While you are not wrong, we are talking about the unwashed masses here who are not necessarily savvy. "Private chat" really should have been.

[-] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

TIL the of the word Panopticon. Thanks stranger

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