Lorenzo Franceschi-BicchieraiMar 26, 2024

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/

Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch

A secret program called "Project Ghostbusters" saw Facebook devise a way to intercept and decrypt the encrypted network traffic of Snapchat users to study their behavior.

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Show threadgary
@lorenzofb everybody upset when zuck does this but they just accept it from feds lol - kind of funny #behave
Mar 27, 2024 at 3:03amWeb
Show threadKye.br Mar 27, 2024
@gary_alderson @lorenzofb It's because we expect this from feds. It's literally in there job description. Facebook shouldn't be doing this. It's unexpected and horrifying.
Show threadgaryMar 28, 2024
@Kyebr @lorenzofb no the feds tread on the unholy alliance and psyop of respecting the constitution which is why they buy this infor from data brokers and fb in their spare time with black budget funds that are untraceable - it is an iceberg and will be a big story in 20 years when we have fiber and and vastly more secure comms. still a good reply - everybody is right here sort of from a fisa lawyer and moral perspective - kinda - which is why it is not such big or 'new' news #bb84 is complete