Private messages used in an abortion prosecution
Reported. Documented by journalists, researchers or Meta’s own files, with no legal finding. How evidence is labeled
Nebraska police served Meta a warrant for Messenger chats between a mother and her 17-year-old daughter, and the messages became evidence. The mother later pleaded guilty. Meta complied with a valid warrant. The chats were readable because Messenger did not encrypt them by default at the time.
Meta’s responseMeta said the warrants “did not mention abortion at all.”
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