Flutterby™! : Facebook wiretapping Snapchat on your phone

Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat

Meta has lots of data through Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, but that’s not enough for them. Court filings unsealed last week allege Meta created an internal effort to spy on Snapchat in a secret initiative called “Project Ghostbusters.” Meta did so through Onavo, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service the company offered between 2016 and 2019 that, ultimately, wasn’t private at all.

So, uh, mad props to the folks who bought a VPN for privacy. This kinda falls nicely on top of "anti-virus" software makers providing additional attack surface, and Mozilla hiring the foxes to guard the henhouse on privacy...