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.

    • ezmack@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I mean yeah it should but you gotta follow the old saying “don’t write when you can speak, don’t speak when you can nod, don’t nod if you can wink” or whatever. You have an expectation of privacy when sending physical mail for example, but it’s still a bad idea to put a crime in writing if you don’t have to. Even if it can’t legally be used as evidence it can be read. We’ve seen that with ‘parallel construction’ from law enforcement

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        1 year ago

        You can always use something like PGP to encrypt your communication.

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          1 year ago

          True, sadly not many people show up for my key signing parties, even if I serve three kinds of chips.

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          Only if you trust the device your decrypting on. Wouldn’t trust windows or Mac with information that could put me in jail.

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              1 year ago

              Sorry, i don’t find it anymore in all the white noise about france being anti encryption. It was about a group of teens being detained on the grounds of mere suspection for using and promoting encrypted messaging, online privacy, using tor and so on, painting that fact as a crime.