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Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges (www.theverge.com)

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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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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

IANAL but it depends. In the US there is strong protection for the contents of your mind and self-incrimination. So if your keys were locked behind a strong password the legal system wouldn't be able to access it. But if you had no password they would be able to seize the device and read the messages.

So basically if the messages are inaccessible other than a secret that you know them yes, they wouldn't be forced to reveal it.