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Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges (www.theverge.com)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

E2E only protects data in transit. Unless the pair also encrypted their data at rest, their messages will still be easily accessed in plain text by their cloud backup.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It supports encrypted backups. Plus that adds legal complication of knowing to and getting data from Google/Apple/etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

they actually do encrypted backups nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

By default or is it opt-in? Glad to hear that they have taken steps to remediate the biggest weakness of their service.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not entirely sure. I think I had to opt in when it came out, but I don't know if they've ever changed it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IIRC it asks if you want to enable backup, and when turning on backup it's an option to encrypt it with a key or password. So by default there's no backup at all.