Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on Nostr: NEW: Facebook snooped on Snapchat users' encrypted network traffic to study how they ...
NEW: Facebook snooped on Snapchat users' encrypted network traffic to study how they behaved, unsealed court documents reveal.
This was part of a secret program called "Project Ghostbusters," and even inside the company, it was very controversial.
“I can’t think of a good argument for why this is okay. No security person is ever comfortable with this, no matter what consent we get from the general public. The general public just doesn’t know how this stuff works,” Pedro Canahuati, Facebook's then-head of security engineering, wrote in an email.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/
This was part of a secret program called "Project Ghostbusters," and even inside the company, it was very controversial.
“I can’t think of a good argument for why this is okay. No security person is ever comfortable with this, no matter what consent we get from the general public. The general public just doesn’t know how this stuff works,” Pedro Canahuati, Facebook's then-head of security engineering, wrote in an email.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/