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.

    • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Facebook claims to have E2E chats, but not by default. Likely these people used the default, non E2E messages.

      Not that I’d trust FACEBOOK with E2E anyway.

          • redballooon@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            If you restore from a backup on iOS, probably not. I’m not a WhatsApp user, but I don’t remember losing my Signal history.

            • Ghoelian@feddit.nlEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              By default whatsapp makes unencrypted backups. You can enable encrypted backups, but then of course if you lose the password you can’t restore the backup.