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.

  • twentyfumble@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t particularly like Facebook but…

    If a country makes it legal to criminally prosecute girls who seek an abortion, and the same country makes it legal to allow police enforcement to demand tech companies to handover their data, maybe the problem is the country and its laws, more than Facebook.

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      1 year ago

      You’re not wrong, but Facebook made no effort to fight the issue and simply handed over data they never should have.

      • IlllIIIlllIlllI@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        Why should they make an effort to break the laws of countries they do business in? If they don’t like the laws, they shouldn’t do business there.