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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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[–] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago

End2End encryption is mostly a PR stunt. In practice it's not hard to go around it. For example:

going after unencrypted backups (such as in google drive)
compromising or seizing your device
forcing the app developer to leak the private keys
forcing you to turn over the information by threatenening you with not cooperating.

It reminds me of this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/

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