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Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges(www.theverge.com)

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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.

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By default or is it opt-in? Glad to hear that they have taken steps to remediate the biggest weakness of their service.

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IIRC it asks if you want to enable backup, and when turning on backup it’s an option to encrypt it with a key or password. So by default there’s no backup at all.

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