Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges
Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges
Unencrypted chat history is a prime target for police
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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She aborted at 28 weeks. That's nearly 6 and a half months pregnant. Most babies can survive outside the womb when they're around 22 to 23 weeks. This was a baby, not some tiny fetus.
I was born decades ago and 2 months early; in the glass box for weeeeks to beat the 11% survival-at-all stats.
Having said that, IT'S STILL NOT FACEBOOK'S BUSINESS as a conveyor and not a filter.
You're right, it's not Facebook's business, but this 17-year old and her mother chose to discuss a crime on Facebook's platform. Facebook had a legal obligation to hand over those messages because they were served a valid warrant.
Perhaps this may be the case. But I'm sure she'd have got the abortion far earlier if not for these backwards laws against it