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

submitted 1 year ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are the product. Are you paying money for the service? No? Zero expectation of privacy.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We enable them to make profit via ads and data harvesting. Private texts/DMs do not need to be involved in that.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Don't use them. I haven't had an account for over a decade.

[–] kava@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

To be fair, I'd imagine there's a wealth of data to plug into their AI models from private chats.

I'd imagine it's hard for them to resist the temptation