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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    1 year ago

    they could have made their shitty DM system end-to-end encrypt messages by default, instead of burying that feature[0] in chat settings

    or, they could have used their MASSIVE wealth and lobbying power to directly fight the warrant in court (if there even was one, they have a long history of just requiring a form ostensibly signed by any cop to turn over private data)

    or they could have just lied and said they couldn’t find the data

    I don’t disagree that people shouldn’t trust Facebook but saying “they don’t have a choice” is absurd

    [0] https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/786613221989782