# Nebraska Mother, Daughter Face Abortion Charges After Facebook Shares Chats With Police

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/nebraska-mother-daughter-face-abortion-charges-after-facebook-shares-chats-with-police/
- Published: 2022-08-13T09:45:08-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: A woman holds a placard saying, “Abolish patriarchal surveillance of women” during a protest to demand safe and legal access to abortion on May 14, 2022. Photo credit: Jeremy Hogan / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images. Article by Julia Conley. Common Dreams – August 10, 2022. “Until Meta gives up surveilling private messages and begins protecting its users with end-to-end encryption, it remains complicit in the surveillance and criminalization of pregnant people,” said one advocate. Digital rights advocates on Tuesday said an abortion case in Nebraska illustrates how powerful tech companies like Facebook could play a major role in prosecutions of people who self-manage abortions as more states ban the procedure, and called on the social media platform to reform its privacy policies to protect users. […] Click here to view original web page at www.commondreams.org