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.

  • @afraid_of_zombies
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    -310 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

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

      • @afraid_of_zombies
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        110 months ago

        Don’t use them. I haven’t had an account for over a decade.

      • @kava
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        010 months ago

        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