Court documents reveal how Facebook's Onavo VPN tracked Snapchat data for "Project Ghostbusters."
Facebook's “In App Panel” program ran from 2016 to 2019 using Onavo’s technology as a man-in-the-middle attack to decrypt secured Snapchat traffic. Court documents unsealed as part of an ongoing class-action antitrust lawsuit show how the program came together. A June 2016 email included in the documents from Mark Zuckerberg says: