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.

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    “Why should I care about my privacy? I don’t do anything illegal.”

    Hmm? Do we now acknowledge that laws and public perceptions of your actions can change with time, and that you may one day become a “criminal” for continuing behaviors that were once legal?

    To preempt the “but it should just be legal” whataboutists: Of course it should just be legal, but “criminal charges” suggests that it isn’t, and privacy helps you not get caught. Furthermore, this issue contains but is not limited to abortion. It’s time that “normal” people wake the fuck up and get on board with privacy rights.

    • sparemethewearysigh@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This is exactly the point I’ve made to friends and family. They complain I’m not on social media like they are and it makes it more difficult to connect with me on things, but I refuse. I will not use services that blatantly disrespect my privacy.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        Same, They treat me like some tinfoil hat conspiracist because I refuse to sign up for social media.

        and all the links to news stories showing how these companies abuse that information, like in the above news story, are met with handwaves and eye rolls… Cause they wont care or listen until the leopard eats their face.

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          Employers and romantic partners can be especially put off if they can’t find any trace of you online. And if they really care, they’ll dig harder to find that time where you declared bankruptcy, or you got arrested for public intoxication, or where someone deep in your past said something negative about you, and that’s all that will stick in your mind when they think of you.

          For me personally, having a simple, but relatively barren social media presence is worth it to avoid the persistent diggers, who will find something about you if they don’t see anything public.

          And besides, everything about most of us is already stored in Apple or Google’s datacenters. There’s no hiding from the deeply intrusive data collection those companies do. So having some simple information out in the open is likely better for privacy in some ways.

          If you disagree with my take, that’s fine, I just wanted to give another perspective.

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            Employers and romantic partners can be especially put off if they can’t find any trace of you online

            Good. I dont want to be involved in anyone that obsessive over social media.

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              It’s not that they’re obsessive over social media, they’re just used to being able to simply look up general information about people online through social media sites. And if you don’t present anything for them to find, it often encourages further digging.

              But you do you, I’m not trying to change your mind.

      • ZombieTheZombieCat@lemmy.world
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        I know, I have no social media and just left reddit too. I hate it when I hear that not being on social media is a “red flag” in the dating scene. But I guess I wouldn’t want to be with someone who cared so little about privacy anyway.

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          Posting “I have no social media” on lemmy. I guess lemmy is antisosial media

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          Sorry to say, it’s not disrespect. It’s a contract. You want to connect, you sell off your ~~soul ~~ data.

          THIS SERVICE IS NOT FREE OF COST. is not plainly written in the contract, but here they are; “disrespected”.

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      Laws are such that everyone breaks at least one every single day, which allows for elselective enforcement.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Do we now acknowledge that laws and public perceptions of your actions can change with time, and that you may one day become a “criminal” for continuing behaviors that were once legal?

      I’ve been making this argument for years. I know I’ll be on a list if my country slips into fascism, as it appears to be hell-bent on achieving during my lifetime.