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.
It’s complicated. Yes, the country is going to shit, but it is also due to meta’s “Big brother-like” data collection in the name of profit margins.
As mentioned in the article, Facebook could remove itself from this problem by not collecting data that could possibly incriminate people. The reason why they were able to hand over the data is because they were collecting their private messages.
Well, they sort of have given the option, with WhatsApp. Which has had full e2ee since 2016, using the signal protocol.
Adding default e2ee on messenger is probably a bit trickier, due to the structure (web client, history saved on the server, and so on)
And why wouldn’t they? Make yourself invaluable to law enforcement and the 3 letter agencies and they will always have your back.