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.

  • @Confused_Emus
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    6710 months ago

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

    • @irlimba
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      210 months ago

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

      • animist
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        2910 months ago

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

        • @RojaBunny
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          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
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          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
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            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
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        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