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Why vice is highlighting Facebook is beyond me. If a judge gives you a warrant, aren’t you forced to provide the data? Otherwise, don’t you face contempt of cou
by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Why vice is highlighting Facebook is beyond me. If a judge gives you a warrant, aren’t you forced to provide the data? Otherwise, don’t you face contempt of court charges and possibly get jailed?
- mattnewton 4y agoI think because a lot of people have an expectation of privacy in messaging services that is demonstratively not true here. They either think warrants aren’t possible because of some of the noise around different end-to-end encrypted systems, they don’t think a warrant will be issued for cases like this, or they aren’t really thinking about it at all.
- kragen 4y agoIf they'd had this conversation over Freenode, Signal, Pond, WhatsApp, or maybe even Matrix or Telegram, probably nobody except the mother and daughter would have a copy of their private messages. Because they used Facebook Messenger instead, Facebook was in a position to provide the private chat to the police. Facebook Messenger is no different in this way from Slack, Discord, or numerous other insecure chat systems. It's unfortunate that Vice didn't bother to mention this.