Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉Jul 7, 2023

This is a warning about Meta and Threads.

Please boost this here and outside of Mastodon so that pregnant people in the United States are informed that using Meta/Threads is dangerous.

I'm unlikely to get pregnant but I have ZERO presence on Meta/Facebook/Instagram/Threads as a matter of principle.

#abortionrights #pregnant #threads

Show threadgoof_ball_amirJul 7, 2023
@crowgirl that’s brutal from META to further traumatizs the poor woman by handing over the facebook messages. Disgusting.
Show threadDouglas KilpatrickJul 7, 2023
@goof_ball_amir @crowgirl They had a warrant. Once FB had the messages and they got a warrant, handing them over is required.... Now, having the messages is not. (And end-to-end encryption is part of their response)
Show threadGreenDotGuy
@kilpatds @goof_ball_amir @crowgirl Yep. And if you don't comply, the government will come and take your server or have your hosting provider dump it. If it's encrypted, they'll hold the admin or the user (depending on how it's encrypted) in contempt of court and throw you in jail until you hand over the keys.
Jul 7, 2023 at 8:53pmWeb
Show threadgoof_ball_amirJul 7, 2023

@DarcMoughty @kilpatds @crowgirl

Well in that case private keys should be only in the hands of users. In chatting apps that is doable, right?

Show threadGreenDotGuyJul 7, 2023

@goof_ball_amir @kilpatds @crowgirl absolutely, and Meta owns the world's leading product that has that feature.

Had they used WhatsApp, Meta would've just handed the police a .zip file full of unintelligible garbage... and it would have been up to the parties in the conversation to defend their privacy.