cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605

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.

    • redballooon@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      If you restore from a backup on iOS, probably not. I’m not a WhatsApp user, but I don’t remember losing my Signal history.

      • Ghoelian@feddit.nl
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        1 year ago

        By default whatsapp makes unencrypted backups. You can enable encrypted backups, but then of course if you lose the password you can’t restore the backup.