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.

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    1 year ago

    Yes. You really should treat anything you post on Lemmy (or anywhere else that isn’t E2E Encrypted) as public.

    This is also why Lemmy recommends against using Lemmy direct messages and recommends Matrix with E2EE instead.