Meta extends message encryption to more Messenger users

Meta highlighted that the functionality will be executed automatically in the most frequent chats of the people selected for the test and not in all their conversations, as it happens in WhatsApp by default.

This feature is announced a few days after a 17-year-old girl and her mother were charged with a series of felonies and misdemeanors following an apparent medical abortion in Nebraska, USA.

The state based the case on the teenager’s private Facebook messages, obtained directly from the social network by court order, allegedly showing that the mother and daughter bought abortion-inducing drugs online and then disposed of the body of the teenager. fetus.

While court documents allege the abortion was before the Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, this is an example of how abortion will be prosecuted in the United States, as well as how tech companies will need to collaborate. in investigations.