Infrasonic wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:In theory this is so they can provide details with an appropriate court order - in practise do you want to trust Facebook or any other large corporation to 'do the right thing' morally? There's a FB whistle-blower case currently active in the USA.
For a consumer-oriented service I'd trust them not to nuke themselves quite so gratuitously. The risk/reward for facebook of abusing users' privacy would be horrific. Leave that to specialists, such as NSO (Pegasus).
I wouldn't!
History has shown that large companies often do things that are reprehensible and potentially commercially suicidal - divide and conquer + deep pockets making it very difficult for individuals to actually get justice unless the state steps in.
I use Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter etc. with the full knowledge that nothing is truly private - so I don't put anything on their services that I would not be comfortable with being in the public domain. I use fake ID and contact info if I can get away with it (increasingly difficult).
If I want to go incognito I use a Linux container via Tor with E2EE and zero knowledge services only. Even that is not 100%.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbwa_aGnlzQ
Patrick Bet-David sits down with former Facebook moderator Shawn Speagle. In this clip they discuss a moderators ability to read anyone's private messages on Facebook and Whatsapp.