Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges - eviltoast

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.ee
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      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.world
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        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