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

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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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[-] flux@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

This would be bigger news had they broken WA E2EE. Indeed, the officials might prefer not to disclose the capability if they had it and this wouldn't have happened. (Except, maybe, via parallel construction.)