Jure RepincJul 9, 2023

Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges

https://lemmy.ml/post/1874795

Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges - Lemmy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605 [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.

Show threadtwentyfumbleJul 9, 2023

I don’t particularly like Facebook but…

If a country makes it legal to criminally prosecute girls who seek an abortion, and the same country makes it legal to allow police enforcement to demand tech companies to handover their data, maybe the problem is the country and its laws, not Facebook.

Show threadreliv3

It’s complicated. Yes, the country is going to shit, but it is also due to meta’s “Big brother-like” data collection in the name of profit margins.

As mentioned in the article, Facebook could remove itself from this problem by not collecting data that could possibly incriminate people. The reason why they were able to hand over the data is because they were collecting their private messages.

Jul 9, 2023 at 9:44pmWeb
Show threadCorkyskogJul 9, 2023
And why wouldn’t they? Make yourself invaluable to law enforcement and the 3 letter agencies and they will always have your back.
Show threadTerrasqueJul 9, 2023

Well, they sort of have given the option, with WhatsApp. Which has had full e2e since 2016, using the signal protocol.

Adding default e2e on messenger is probably a bit trickier, due to the structure (web client, history saved on the server, and so on)