Unencrypted chat history is a prime target for police

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.

  • madcow@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

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

    • Fluffyb@lemmy.nzEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Only if you trust the device your decrypting on. Wouldn’t trust windows or Mac with information that could put me in jail.

    • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      True, sadly not many people show up for my key signing parties, even if I serve three kinds of chips.

        • Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.mlBEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Sorry, i don’t find it anymore in all the white noise about france being anti encryption. It was about a group of teens being detained on the grounds of mere suspection for using and promoting encrypted messaging, online privacy, using tor and so on, painting that fact as a crime.