A Nebraska teenager and her mother are being criminally charged over the teen’s abortion, after Facebook provided law enforcement with her private messages. The fall of Roe not only brings back repressive laws around abortion, it takes on a whole new dimension when there’s surveillance technology far beyond what was available. pre-Roe. This petition to Mark Zuckerberg states:
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, you stated that the company’s encryption would protect people from “bad behavior or over-broad requests for information.” But by continuing to collect and store this data — and by neglecting to have encryption turned on by default — you are putting users at risk.
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Protect your users. Private messages should be private.
Some are pushing to #DeleteFacebook.
As always, this diary is a group effort. Thanks to mettle fatigue, elenacarlena, Angmar, SandraLLAP, and the WOW crew for links and discussion.