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Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 160 points 3 years ago (4 children)

For the love of gods everyone please delete FB now

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Wish I could. My family uses messenger :(

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  • [–] 65 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    So does mine, I deleted it anyway. You've got their phone numbers for texting and calling.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Family group chat so it isn't that easy. On the other hand I never open Facebook so 🤷

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It still data mines on your phone even when you don't open it

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    If you have android, the duckduckgo browser app has a beta opt-in app tracking blocker service. I activated it a few days ago and it's been horrifying how many trackers there are. Almost 50,000 since I turned it on maybe 4 days ago.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I don't disagree. And I totally understand and support people who choose to leave the platform altogether. I will more than likely leave at a certain point, the same way I left reddit.

    I was only trying to open up discussion on the topic. I think that for most of us (younger generation) understand a the privacy issues with platforms like Facebook, Google, Tiktok. But I do also believe that for most it's extremely impractical to abandon that platform. Not everyone can be a pioneer.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    That's the fun part, you don't have to be a pioneer. There are plenty of well tested and recommended apps that offer E2EE and aren't under the control of Meta. Post in your family chat telling why the current app is no longer acceptable for use and drop a link to your preferred secure app.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    As long as I could I stayed off of it. Then it became necessary for work to be able to post to marketplace, and I'm stuck with the app on my phone.

    I would love to somehow silo it off from me completely but I would still need to be able to reply to marketplace messages from my phone, so not sure how it's possible.

    Sucks, but is what it is I guess. Not changing jobs over it!

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I can't, the facebook installer is baked into my phone's bootloader

    I hate that phone so much

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Oof yeah I feel that. After my last phone broke I finally was able to get a Google Pixel at a good price and then put GrapheneOS on it. No more spyware

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I have never heard of GrapheneOS. Is it doable on a Realmi phone?

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