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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.world

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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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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can't you just look at the data in. The database though? No need to login as the user. Surely not every field is hashed

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's a good point and I don't know the answer to that (my guess is encryption is involved), but as other people have pointed out, Facebook has an alternate encrypted messaging service, WhatsApp, so Facebook is clearly capable of not being able to access its users' messages.

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, based on Signal's protocol. Signal is the only messaging app I use.

[–] astral_avocado@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

Wasn't there strong evidence Facebook has a built-in backdoor to their encryption?