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submitted 1 year ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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[-] silverbax@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

How's that end-to-end encryption working out?

Doesn't matter if the company doing the e2e can get your messages.

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 year ago

but fb messenger is not e2e encrypted at all. If the company is doing e2e then they can't read your messages

[-] theherk@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It is if you enable secret messages for a conversation, I believe, but not the default chat mode. In either case people should use other apps.

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

but only on mobile apps afaik. So if you use it, be careful

[-] Tekkip20@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is true, FB messenger is as open as it will get with seeing your messages, WhatsApp is dubious too so either Signal or Session are best e2e messenger apps imo.

[-] Legendsofanus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have never heard of them, are they social media apps?

[-] Tekkip20@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The two apps I've mentioned are exclusively messenger apps. Think of Facebooks messenger but more secure with no big company servers looking at your chat and messages.

[-] chokidar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That sounds more like e2e2e!

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