Unencrypted chat history is a prime target for police

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.

  • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

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

    • kava@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year 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