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.

  • LeZero
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    241 year ago

    Do you think people who collaborated with dictatorial regimes should be excused? Because they followed the law?

    Why didnt Meta implant E2EE on their private chat service then?

    • @kevincox@lemmy.ml
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      121 year ago

      This is what I can agree with. We could blame Meta for encouraging people to give them data. Messenger does actually have E2EE encryption (apparently) but it is quite hidden and limited in functionality. If they made it the default this wouldn’t have been a position they ended up in, and they could have responded to the warrant with “We have no information matching this request.”

      • @Tankton@lemm.ee
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        31 year ago

        If they truly encrypted all chats, they would lose their value to them since its unreadable to meta as well.

    • @platypus_plumba@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      Because they use what you say to tagert ads and keep a record of who you are. That’s how they make money.

      Which goes back to… You’re just a product. Stop using large platforms for personal shit. That’s their business model, how is it evil if most people know these companies rely on stealing as much information from you as they legally can AND they still use them.