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.

  • sparemethewearysigh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is exactly the point I’ve made to friends and family. They complain I’m not on social media like they are and it makes it more difficult to connect with me on things, but I refuse. I will not use services that blatantly disrespect my privacy.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Same, They treat me like some tinfoil hat conspiracist because I refuse to sign up for social media.

      and all the links to news stories showing how these companies abuse that information, like in the above news story, are met with handwaves and eye rolls… Cause they wont care or listen until the leopard eats their face.

    • ZombieTheZombieCat@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I know, I have no social media and just left reddit too. I hate it when I hear that not being on social media is a “red flag” in the dating scene. But I guess I wouldn’t want to be with someone who cared so little about privacy anyway.

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        1 year ago

        Posting “I have no social media” on lemmy. I guess lemmy is antisosial media

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        1 year ago

        Sorry to say, it’s not disrespect. It’s a contract. You want to connect, you sell off your ~~soul ~~ data.

        THIS SERVICE IS NOT FREE OF COST. is not plainly written in the contract, but here they are; “disrespected”.