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Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal
A secret program called "Project Ghostbusters" saw Facebook devise a way to intercept and decrypt the encrypted network traffic of Snapchat users to study their behavior.
On Tuesday, a federal court in California released new documents discovered as part of the class action lawsuit between consumers and Meta, Facebook’s parent company. “Whenever someone asks a question about Snapchat, the answer is usually that because their traffic is encrypted we have no analytics about them,” Meta chief executive Mark Zuckeberg wrote in an email dated June 9, 2016, which was published as part of the lawsuit. “We now have the capability to measure detailed in-app activity,” from “parsing snapchat [sic] analytics collected from incentivized participants in Onavo’s research program,” read another email.
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