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Snapchat was the main target of Project Ghostbusters, which used the controversial spyware-like VPN to access encrypted data. YouTube and Amazon came next.
Newly unsealed court documents from an ongoing class action lawsuit against Meta show that in 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally directed executives to "figure out" how to track encrypted usage on competing apps like Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon.
Court filings unsealed last week allege Meta created an internal effort to spy on Snapchat in a secret initiative called
Facebook launched a secret initiative called 'Project Ghostbusters' in 2016 to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between Snapchat's app and its servers.
New documents in a class action lawsuit against Meta reveal that Facebook spied on users' Snapchat traffic, throwing privacy out the window.