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wow, "Celeste Burgess, who was 28 weeks pregnant at the time, and her mother Jessica Burgess, who allegedly performed an abortion without a licensed doctor present. The investigation began after police received a tip that the pair had illegally buried a stillborn child." This is in Nebraska FYI. And Meta emphasized that the search warrant it received was legal and valid and did not specifically mention abortion. All it said was "a stillborn baby being burned and buried" so...

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I was expecting to be outraged at Facebook, but reading how the warrant was cleverly phrased, I dont belive they did anything questionable.

and 28 weeks vs 40 weeks makes no difference? Some would debate "a still born baby" implies full term?

24 weeks is viable nowadays. 37 is full term

So yeah, baby.

Handing over someone’s chats isn’t questionable? Let’s at least try not to normalize surveillance.

wow, such good arguments on both sides. I need to re-watch 1984.

It shouldn't be possible for them to turn over the chats. E2E encryption is tables stakes for messaging, but they won't do it because there's profit to be had in understanding users through their private messages.

So yes, Facebook is still in the wrong here.

They do offer an E2E platform Whatsapp which is wildly popular in the rest of the world AND the ability to have e2e encrypted chats on messenger too.

So really what more to expect?

How would E2E encryption stop law enforcement from subpoenaing data at-rest?

I think E2E is encrypted at rest. Technically, all data over TLS is encrypted while in transit.

E2EE strictly means that it is encrypted between endpoints. It makes no promises about how the keys are handled, how the data is protected at rest, or how secure either endpoint is. TLS is a version of this, but also demonstrates how useless such a version of encryption is if either endpoint is malicious.

This is one of the reasons homomorphic encryption is interesting. It should enable this kinda of "total user control" over your data, but it's highly unlikely consumer systems will implement it.

They have been rolling out E2E chats in messenger for a while now. So yes, they will and are doing it.

If it were table stakes people would opt for messeaging applications that have it, seeing that there's a plethora of them out there.

I don't like Facebook, and I don't use it or any of Meta's products, but if people want encryption they have options.

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