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Facebook’s Project Ghostbusters: The better to spy on you

Charmingly named Project Ghostbusters, Facebook (Meta) apparently went to great trouble to spy on competitors, including Snapchat, Amazon and YouTube for user data. This revealed in unsealed documents in California federal court, was done to gain competitive advantage and understand how users behaved on other sites – and was supported by Meta executives including CEO Mark Zuckerberg. It was done by intercepting and decrypting network traffic between user devices and company servers.