I have the type of email address that regularly receives email meant for other people with a similar name. Invites, receipts, and at one point someones Disney+ account.

At one point I was getting a strangers fertility app updates - didn't know her name, but I could tell you where she was in her cycle.

I've also had NHS records sent to me, again entirely unsolicited, although that had enough I could find who it was meant for and inform them of the data breach.

I'm no fan of facebook, but I'm not sure you can criminalise receiving data, you can't control what others send you.

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WhyCause 2 days ago | parent [-]

> ...you can't control what others send you.

Of course not. You can, however, control what you then do with said data.

If a courier accidentally dropped a folder full of nuclear secrets in your mailbox, I promise you that if you do anything with it other than call the FBI (in the US), you will be in trouble.

	▲	gruez 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Except in this case it's unclear whether any intentional decision went on at meta. A better analogy would be if someone sent you a bunch of CSAM, it went to your spam folder, but then because you have backups enabled the CSAM got replicated to 3 different servers across state lines, and the FBI is charging you with "distributing" CSAM.