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Project Ghostbusters: How Meta snooped on users' Snapchat traffic to plan competing strategy
FirstpostMeta has been spying on its users’ Snapchat data by intercepting and decrypting network traffic between users devices and Snapchat’s servers. Called “Project Ghostbusters,” the core idea was to study how users use Snapchat, and then come up with a competing service Meta has a long history of snooping on people's data usage habits. Image Credit: AFP Recently unsealed court documents from a federal case between consumers and Meta, Facebook’s parent company, shed light on a secret project initiated by Facebook in 2016 aimed at intercepting and decrypting network traffic between users of Snapchat and its servers. Dubbed “Project Ghostbusters,” the endeavour was conceived to comprehend user behaviour and bolster Facebook’s competitive stance against Snapchat. One document outlines Project Ghostbusters as part of Facebook’s In-App Action Panel program, employing techniques to intercept and decrypt encrypted app traffic from Snapchat, and later from YouTube and Amazon users.
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