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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.

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AT&T acknowledges data of ~73M consumers breached & at risk

April 2, 2024

In 2021, a threat actor claimed to be selling data of 73 million AT&T customers, but the telecom demurred saying there hadn’t been a breach. Well, apparently, that was incorrect as AT&T now confirms, and highly sensitive information dating back to 2019 has been leaked on the dark web. This includes Social Security numbers, passcodes, email addresses and birth dates, and has raised concerns over risks for identity theft.

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Treasure Data Introduces CDP Trade-Up Program

January 14, 2025

Treasure Data will provide its system to free for companies that are stuck in contracts with other CDPs. The trade-up program is available to companies with roughly firms with $1 billion or more revenue, that already have a competitive CDP in place. There will still be some costs for services to make the conversion but Treasure Data says these are fairly small since it has considerable experience with such projects.

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