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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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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 59 points 2 years ago

For all of those saying Facebook was just complying with the law- there is absolutely no reason for Facebook to have access to its users' private information. The company I work for can't do anything with a customer's account unless they give us the password. We can't see anything they have saved there. All of the private stuff they have is private and even if a court ordered us to show it to them, we literally couldn't comply.

We're a small company and we can do it. A company the size of Meta can certainly do it.

[-] Skyrmir@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago

You can do it because you're a small company. Get enough attention, and the FBI will force you to decrypt on demand. They've done it before and the supreme court backed them up. Do it over seas and expect your US traffic to get blocked, if they don't raid your offices.

[-] EricHill78@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

That is untrue. The FBI tried to get Apple to decrypt a shooter's iPhone in Florida a few years back and they wouldn't budge.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

This isn’t quite right…

Apple didn’t have the means to decrypt the information, but it was within their ability to do (by writing code to do so.)

But asking a company for the unencrypted data, and forcing a company to produce a new application, are completely different things.

[-] False@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Apple didn’t have the means to decrypt the information, but it was within their ability to do (by writing code to do so.)

Happen to have a source for that? That's nigh impossible for most encryption

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