Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in a secret project, documents reveal
Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in a secret project, documents reveal.
Facebook launched a secret project in 2016 to understand users’ behavior and help the company compete with Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents. Facebook called this “Project Ghostbusters,” in a reference to Snapchat’s logo.
In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers.
The goal was to understand users’ behavior and help Facebook compete with Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents. Facebook called this “Project Ghostbusters,” in a clear reference to Snapchat’s ghost-like logo.
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.
The newly released documents reveal how Meta tried to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors, including Snapchat and later Amazon and YouTube, by analyzing the network traffic of how its users were interacting with Meta’s competitors.
Given these apps’ use of encryption, Facebook needed to develop special technology to get around it.
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