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Facebook Spied on Snapchat Users Reveal Court Documents
In 2016, Facebook initiated a covert project dubbed "Project Ghostbusters" to intercept and decrypt traffic between Snapchat users and servers.
Newly unsealed court documents, emerging from a class action lawsuit against Meta (formerly Facebook), shed light on the clandestine endeavor aimed at understanding user behavior and gaining an edge over competitors like Snapchat, Amazon, and YouTube. The documents, released by a federal court in California, exposed Meta’s efforts to analyze network traffic of competitors’ platforms despite encryption barriers. Some employees, including Jay Parikh and Pedro Canahuati, expressed discomfort with the invasive nature of the project, highlighting potential privacy breaches.
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