Facebook Was Snooping On Rival Snapchat, YouTube And Amazon’s Users, Show Court Documents
Newly unsealed documents from a federal court in California have revealed that Meta-owned Facebook was monitoring users of social media rivals Snapchat, Google-owned YouTube and Amazon. Dubbed "Project Ghostbusters", the initiative involved the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company intercepting and decrypting network traffic of Snapchat users, the media has reported.
In 2016, Facebook initiated a covert project aimed at intercepting and decrypting network traffic between users of Snapchat's app and its servers. The objective was to gain insights into user behavior and bolster Facebook's competitiveness against Snapchat, as revealed in recently unsealed court documents. Dubbed "Project Ghostbusters" by Zuckerberg-owned scial networking giant, the name clearly all...