Such concerns over privacy invasion are growing. In Nebraska, for example, prosecutors used Facebook messages between a mom and her daughter that discussed an effort by the mother to help her daughter procure abortion medication. The teenager was past the twenty-week mark where it becomes illegal in the state, and the two were accused of burning and burying the remains. They were charged with crimes including concealing a death and mishandling human remains; the daughter, who was then seventeen, was initially charged as an adult.9 Facebook, now called Meta, turned over the messages to law
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