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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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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year 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 1 year 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.

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram don't have that issue.

[-] ModdedPhones@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Signal yes, WhatsApp yes but not the meta data, telegram only if explicitly set to encrypted otherwise no.

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