cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605

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.

  • FIash Mob #5678
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    241 year ago

    One of the many, many, many reasons to keep Meta out of the Fediverse if it can be managed.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      How do we know that Fediverse will be any different? After all if it is a law and you get a legal subponae, you comply with it.

      • FIash Mob #5678
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        151 year ago

        It probably wouldn’t be.

        The thing is, Meta has the money and power to fight against injustices like this, but instead, they’re complicit, and I’d prefer their corrupting influence stay far, far away from the fediverse.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          Dude it’s not really called complicit anymore they’re effectively a subsidiary of the government.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        Agree. People like to act like Lemmy is a utopia where privacy is always protected and what not. The fact is when it comes down to it, the admins have to comply with the law. If a warrant shows up at their door, they got no choice but to give up information.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        From an opsec standpoint, certainly. Or they’ll kick in your door like the Kolektiva admin. Definitely best to use end to end encryption if you have any need to protect yourself from state actors. But also fuck meta