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

Court documents reveal Meta’s Project Ghostbusters, which leveraged the Onavo VPN to intercept and analyze encrypted traffic from competitors’ apps like Snapchat, Amazon, and YouTube using a man-in-the-middle technique to gain usage analytics; internal emails show leadership interest alongside security leaders’ concerns, Onavo was later shut down, and a class action lawsuit followed.