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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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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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[–] EricHill78@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is untrue. The FBI tried to get Apple to decrypt a shooter's iPhone in Florida a few years back and they wouldn't budge.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

This isn’t quite right…

Apple didn’t have the means to decrypt the information, but it was within their ability to do (by writing code to do so.)

But asking a company for the unencrypted data, and forcing a company to produce a new application, are completely different things.