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Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] gapbetweenus@feddit.de 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you have nothing to hide... but then they just change the laws, now you are a criminal and they already have handy tools in place to convict you.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You cannot be convicted for an action that was made illegal after you comitted it. This is just Facebook sucking data and making money off others' misfortune. I am sure that they didn't hand over the chat logs for free. "I got nothing to hide" is exactly the reason Meta is a multi-billion company. Your agenda should be "I have nothing to gain from sharing my life with them".

It's like "don't talk to cops, it will not help you".

[–] gapbetweenus@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

You cannot be convicted for an action that was made illegal after you comitted it.

That was not my point. The point is, if the tech for mass surveillance is already in place and the laws change to more authoritarian or even just more dumb, it will be harder to escape those.

“I have nothing to gain from sharing my life with them”.

That is obvious not true, otherwise people would not be using social media.

[–] SaltySalamander@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I am sure that they didn’t hand over the chat logs for free

They handed over the chat logs in response to a court order to do so. The gov't didn't pay them. They forced them.