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.

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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

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They should be? I mean, not just for the crime, but in general privacy should be the default.

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It should be, I fully agree, unfortunately we live in a digital panopticon.

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You can always use something like PGP to encrypt your communication.

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TIL the of the word Panopticon. Thanks stranger

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I mean yeah it should but you gotta follow the old saying “don’t write when you can speak, don’t speak when you can nod, don’t nod if you can wink” or whatever. You have an expectation of privacy when sending physical mail for example, but it’s still a bad idea to put a crime in writing if you don’t have to. Even if it can’t legally be used as evidence it can be read. We’ve seen that with ‘parallel construction’ from law enforcement

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Wait, lemme write that down

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I’ve actually never heard that saying. I like it a lot.

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The Klingons of Star Trek also have a saying: If you do not wish a thing heard, do not say it.

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