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by 31835843 1451 days ago
Yes. What I want to hear from any company that stores health data is “Health data, including period tracking, is 100% end to end encrypted. We don’t have the keys to this data and are unable to provide it to any law enforcement.”

Short of that, I don’t trust them.

Having said that, I’m not sure at all how Snapchat, etc enter into this. They are platforms where people post about themselves to the world. If I had a post saying “I am on the way to get an abortion” I am not sure how or why the company would get between me and the law.

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Sadly, promises of "100% end-to-end unbreakable encrypted" have a long history of receiving "OOPS!..." updates.
If FB can tell when/if you’re pregnant it can also probably tell how likely you are to get an abortion. What’s to stop LEO from stopping at demanding raw data and start asking for algorithmic data as well.
If information is published publicly by users LEO should be invited to scrub it from public facing services themselves. Why should companies provide any help surveil its users?