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.

  • silverbax@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How’s that end-to-end encryption working out?

    Doesn’t matter if the company doing the e2e can get your messages.

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      1 year ago

      but fb messenger is not e2e encrypted at all. If the company is doing e2e then they can’t read your messages

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        1 year ago

        It is if you enable secret messages for a conversation, I believe, but not the default chat mode. In either case people should use other apps.

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        1 year ago

        This is true, FB messenger is as open as it will get with seeing your messages, WhatsApp is dubious too so either Signal or Session are best e2e messenger apps imo.

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            1 year ago

            The two apps I’ve mentioned are exclusively messenger apps. Think of Facebooks messenger but more secure with no big company servers looking at your chat and messages.