Just yesterday here on Lemmy, I mentioned the dangers of violating privacy, and some commenters went on about "what dangers?" Implying there were none...

Is it not enough to gesture broadly?

America is a terrifying church with guns. I pity the citizens.

People are getting all upset at Facebook/Meta here but they were served a valid warrant. I don't think there is much to get mad about them here. The takeaway I get is this:

Avoid giving data to others. No matter how trustworthy they are (not that Meta is) they can be legally compelled to release it. Trust only in cryptography.

There is of course the other question of if abortion being illegal is a policy that most people agree with...but that is a whole different kettle of fish that I won't get into here.

Regardless of what you think about abortion laws people just gotta come to terms with the fact that your phone and computer are not reliable partners in crime

I'm almost certain that if something like this happened to any fediverse instance - that a local police enforcement would contact the admin and asked for user's data, which they are required by law to provide or they would go to jail/get a hefty fine and possibly a criminal record, they would do that too. That's also why E2E is required, to prevent such problems for instance admins - but then again, there's really nothing you can do against local law, and if it requires that you have to be able to cooperate, well... Then there's not much the admin can do, without putting himself in a real risk of prosecution, because he is breaking the law by have E2E.

That's also a good reason to be careful when selecting your home instance, and making sure that you choose one in a country that has all right laws in that regard.

Of course, that's assuming the police makes contact. I don't suppose that the admins would be searching through the DMs of people to snitch on them. And if Meta is doing that preemtively and is actively snitching on people - that's downright evil.

Yeah, that sounds pretty on-brand for Meta

What year is it

And y'all thought China having your data was something to be afraid of.

"I gUeSs IlL use ThReAdS. WhAts ThE hArM" /s

Remember folks, when subverting a theocratic hellscape, use something encrypted.

"private chat history" on Facebook...

If you have nothing to hide... but then they just change the laws, now you are a criminal and they already have handy tools in place to convict you.

Gonna Re-Share this resource... PLEASE forward to individuals who may need it! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/digital-security-and-privacy-tips-those-involved-abortion-access

When you oppose the left-wing, you're defending this.

Meta needs to be destroyed. No organisation, person, or people should hold that much power.

Just deleted my Instagram Account for good. I have no need for any Meta App on my Phone or any other Stasi like Institution

I thought messenger was end-to-end encrypted, at least according to Facebook. How were they able to hand over the chat logs? The messages should be encrypted with a key that is itself encrypted with user's password, which Facebook doesn't store.

What am I missing?

this is pretty disgusting even for Facebook

Jesus Christ, America.

Well, don't use Facebook to talk about doing things that are illegal. Why do people not use common sense?

Use Signal messenger and have it set for auto deletion of messages if you must message!!!

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Fuck Meta!!

Aside from any moral or political views, it amuses me when people do criminal acts and fail to realize police can inspect personal data like text messages, email, and social media. I think people smart enough to realize that are smart enough to avoid committing a crime in the first place. Though there are smart criminals that get away with it, you just don't hear about them because they don't get caught. In any case I tend to think being stupid is prerequisite to being a criminal.