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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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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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[–] -2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

E2E only protects data in transit. Unless the pair also encrypted their data at rest, their messages will still be easily accessed in plain text by their cloud backup.

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

    By default or is it opt-in? Glad to hear that they have taken steps to remediate the biggest weakness of their service.

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