The case of Celeste Burgess illustrates 'the real, human cost of mass surveillance of everyone's private digital communications,' said one digital rights advocate.
, police received a tip about the disposal of the remains and obtained a warrant to view the mother and daughters' Facebook messages after Celeste Burgess mentioned the correspondence when she was being questioned by law enforcement.
Digital rights groups have long called on Facebook and other online messaging platforms to make end-to-end encryption the default setting for users' conversations. "When [prosecutors] are faced with the limitations of state law and the fact that a self-managed abortion or a pregnancy loss is not illegal under state law, it's almost as if they start throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks," Roth said.
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