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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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afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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You are the product. Are you paying money for the service? No? Zero expectation of privacy.

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A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.ee
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We enable them to make profit via ads and data harvesting. Private texts/DMs do not need to be involved in that.

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afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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Don’t use them. I haven’t had an account for over a decade.

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kava@lemmy.world
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To be fair, I’d imagine there’s a wealth of data to plug into their AI models from private chats.

I’d imagine it’s hard for them to resist the temptation

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