Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat (gizmodo.com)

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Thus, Project Ghostbusters was born. It’s Meta’s in-house wiretapping tool to spy on data analytics from Snapchat starting in 2016, later used on YouTube and Amazon. This involved creating “kits” that can be installed on iOS and Android devices, to intercept traffic for certain apps, according to the filings. This was described as a “man-in-the-middle” approach to get data on Facebook’s rivals, but users of Onavo were the “men in the middle.”

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[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 6 months ago

Interesting. I dont use Sim cards so I wouldn't know

this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2024

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