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

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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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[–] theterrasque@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, they sort of have given the option, with WhatsApp. Which has had full e2ee since 2016, using the signal protocol.

Adding default e2ee on messenger is probably a bit trickier, due to the structure (web client, history saved on the server, and so on)