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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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[-] phillaholic@beehaw.org 111 points 1 year ago

We need to be clear here. Don't hate Meta/Facebook for complying with a legal search warrant. That's the law. Hate Meta/Facebook for having the ability to hand over private chat messages at all. End-to-End Encryption is the only answer. It's not about trust, it's about the ability.

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 37 points 1 year ago

End-to-End Encryption is the only answer.

With OpenSource, audited, and user-controlled software.

Any software that could be ordered by a third party (like Meta) to send the E2E keys to the server, while sending all the encrypted messaged through the same server, is not to be trusted.

[-] 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.)