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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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[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the perfect example of why you should be worried. Because your government can turn into a fascist dictatorship at any time and you ain't getting that data back.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is this an example of the government turning into a "fascist dictatorship"?

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reading comprehension is hard, so I'll help you out.

This [event mentioned on the news] is the perfect example of why you should be worried. Because your government can [i.e. has the potential to] turn into a fascist dictatorship at any time [which is unrelated to this specific piece of news, being a hypothetical scenario] and you ain’t getting that data back.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can read just fine, I'm just wondering how you correlate this with the possibility of the government turning into a fascist dictatorship. They're 2 completely unrelated things, that's why I'm confused to why you put them together. You even literally say it's unrelated to this piece of news.....

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you serious, or being a pitiful basement troll?

Action is not illegal → Service provider has unprivateable data on action → Action becomes illegal → You now have confessed to your crime

Can't make it much more obvious

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought ex post facto laws were forbidden.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

People won't all stop doing something they did just because it became illegal. I wouldn't stop eating bread if it became illegal, for instance. Much easier to justify a search and witch hunt if there's evidence of previous action.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you being serious, or just being a pitiful basement troll yourself?

You're saying because they did thing A it means you should be wary because thing Z might happen, even though things A and Z have literally nothing to do with each other nor does A happening give any likelihood of Z happening.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Got it, you're a pitiful troll. I don't care that your time is worthless, stop wasting mine.