cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874733
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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I mean, it’s really simple: don’t talk about committing crimes on social media
This is kind of a though one, abortion laws are a minefield but it seems they clearly broke Nebraskas law. When this article is correct then she was in her 28th week pregnant and Nebraska allows abortion for up to 20 weeks. If this is true then Meta has to obey the countries law and hand over the data they have, which also includes chat history. This is not about abortion, Nebraska clearly allows it, it is about breaking a law and the authoroties that investigate it.
I still find it idiotic that Metas apps still have encryption off for chats as a default, Google also they just enabled E2EE on Gmail last year if I’m correct. But it has to be keept in mind that compenies have to follow the laws of the countries they are in, I do not want to defend Meta (honestly fuck them) but they have to comply. When the state has a warrant and requires Meat to give unencrypted content they pretty much have to give it over. Like Proton that had to give the IP from an activist to authorities because a judge decieded they have to.
To have better privacy we do not only have to critizise companies but also change the laws that they have to obey.
The UK only allows it until 24 weeks too
