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.

  • PineapplePartisan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    E2E only protects data in transit. Unless the pair also encrypted their data at rest, their messages will still be easily accessed in plain text by their cloud backup.

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      1 year ago

      It supports encrypted backups. Plus that adds legal complication of knowing to and getting data from Google/Apple/etc.

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          I’m not entirely sure. I think I had to opt in when it came out, but I don’t know if they’ve ever changed it.

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          1 year ago

          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.