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

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

Unencrypted chat history is a prime target for police

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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did anyone actually read the article? you guys are responding like meta sent this data on its own. it was issued a search warrant after the two women told police that they had discussed the third trimester (28 week) abortion on facebook. they literally gave the police the tip off and meta just followed the law written by the people elected in that state by properly responding to the search warrant.
do i like meta? no. do i agree with abortion law as it is? no.
do i think meta should follow the law? yes.
- And she was 7 months pregnant. I’d say that is definitely too late for an abortion in the minds of an overwhelming majority of Americans…
  
  Tf does it matter? 2 weeks, 28 weeks, what's the difference?
  
  Abortion is legal in Nebraska, where this occurred, through the 20th week.
  Fetuses are viable outside the womb at 24 weeks.
  She even still went through labor and gave birth in this situation. She just took medicine to kill the fetus first. At that point is it really absurd to say she could have just not taken the meds and given it up for adoption?
  
  Well, the difference is about 26 fuckin weeks.
- This wouldn't have happened of they made E2E encryption the default in Messenger

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