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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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[–] octet33@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So either FB isn't actually E2E, or their implementation is Twitter-grade broken.

[–] redballooon@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who said facebooks private chat would be e2e?

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Facebook claims to have E2E chats, but not by default. Likely these people used the default, non E2E messages.

Not that I'd trust FACEBOOK with E2E anyway.

[–] redballooon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WhatsApp claims e2e by default.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will all the chats be gone if you switch devices?

[–] redballooon@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you restore from a backup on iOS, probably not. I’m not a WhatsApp user, but I don’t remember losing my Signal history.

[–] Ghoelian@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

By default whatsapp makes unencrypted backups. You can enable encrypted backups, but then of course if you lose the password you can't restore the backup.