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Facebook secretly looked at Snapchat, Amazon, and YouTube user data, documents reveal
"Project Ghostbusters" lies at the core of it all.
The documents, unsealed on Tuesday as part of an ongoing class action lawsuit between Meta and consumers, show that Facebook pursued a secret project to analyze the traffic and analytics of its rivals, first focusing on Snapchat, and later Amazon and YouTube. Project Ghostbusters is described by Dunne to have used "incredibly aggressive technological measures — including intercepting and decrypting SSL-protected traffic" on Snapchat, applying this later to Amazon and YouTube. Back in 2018, internal documents released by UK lawmakers also shed light on Facebook snooping on its competitors, including Snapchat (which the company failed to acquire) and WhatsApp(a part of the Meta family since 2014).
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