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Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal

Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal

FromTechCrunch Industry News


Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal

FromTechCrunch Industry News

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5 minutes
Released:
Mar 28, 2024
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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"
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Mar 28, 2024
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