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Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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You cannot be convicted for an action that was made illegal after you comitted it. This is just Facebook sucking data and making money off others' misfortune. I am sure that they didn't hand over the chat logs for free. "I got nothing to hide" is exactly the reason Meta is a multi-billion company. Your agenda should be "I have nothing to gain from sharing my life with them".
It's like "don't talk to cops, it will not help you".
That was not my point. The point is, if the tech for mass surveillance is already in place and the laws change to more authoritarian or even just more dumb, it will be harder to escape those.
That is obvious not true, otherwise people would not be using social media.
They handed over the chat logs in response to a court order to do so. The gov't didn't pay them. They forced them.