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.

  • @irlimba
    link
    English
    1110 months ago

    Wish I could. My family uses messenger :(

    • @Confused_Emus
      link
      English
      6710 months ago

      So does mine, I deleted it anyway. You’ve got their phone numbers for texting and calling.

      • @irlimba
        link
        English
        210 months ago

        Family group chat so it isn’t that easy. On the other hand I never open Facebook so 🤷

        • animist
          link
          fedilink
          English
          2910 months ago

          It still data mines on your phone even when you don’t open it

          • @RojaBunny
            link
            English
            410 months ago

            If you have android, the duckduckgo browser app has a beta opt-in app tracking blocker service. I activated it a few days ago and it’s been horrifying how many trackers there are. Almost 50,000 since I turned it on maybe 4 days ago.

          • @irlimba
            link
            English
            310 months ago

            I don’t disagree. And I totally understand and support people who choose to leave the platform altogether. I will more than likely leave at a certain point, the same way I left reddit.

            I was only trying to open up discussion on the topic. I think that for most of us (younger generation) understand a the privacy issues with platforms like Facebook, Google, Tiktok. But I do also believe that for most it’s extremely impractical to abandon that platform. Not everyone can be a pioneer.

            • @Confused_Emus
              link
              English
              210 months ago

              That’s the fun part, you don’t have to be a pioneer. There are plenty of well tested and recommended apps that offer E2EE and aren’t under the control of Meta. Post in your family chat telling why the current app is no longer acceptable for use and drop a link to your preferred secure app.

        • @Nihilore
          link
          English
          210 months ago

          My family has a group chat on messenger, I’m just not a apart of it because I will never install anything owned by meta on my phone

    • animist
      link
      fedilink
      English
      2110 months ago

      Lol i told my family and friends if they want to talk to me they have to install signal. Those that want to talk to me did and those that don’t didn’t. Problem solved.

    • @_wintermute
      link
      English
      1010 months ago

      Were you unable to communicate with them before messenger? :( must have been hard times.