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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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[–] ezmack@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean yeah it should but you gotta follow the old saying "don't write when you can speak, don't speak when you can nod, don't nod if you can wink" or whatever. You have an expectation of privacy when sending physical mail for example, but it's still a bad idea to put a crime in writing if you don't have to. Even if it can't legally be used as evidence it can be read. We've seen that with 'parallel construction' from law enforcement

[–] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've actually never heard that saying. I like it a lot.

[–] ezmack@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It's one of those quotes with a lot of different versions floating around I think it's generally attributed to this guy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lomasney

[–] zuhayr@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, lemme write that down

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

The Klingons of Star Trek also have a saying: If you do not wish a thing heard, do not say it.