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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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[–] SoaringDE@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well it could have been end to end encrypted leaving no way to turn anything over. It's like turning over someones mail after it has been delivered because you made a copy of everything that came through.

[–] nemesis_aorta@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or, and I know Meta would find this absurd, but maybe don’t collect that data to begin with?!

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

How… do you think messaging platforms work?