Unsealed court filings reveal Meta's secret plan, 'Project Ghostbusters,' to acquire valuable intel about Snapchat through its users' devices.
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 service the company offered between 2016 and 2019 that, ultimately, wasn’t private at all.
It gave Facebook valuable intel about competitors, and this week’s court filings seem to confirm that. A team of senior executives and roughly 41 lawyers worked on Project Ghostbusters, according to court filings. The group was heavily concerned with whether to continue the program in the face of press scrutiny. Facebook ultimately shut down Onavo in 2019 after Apple booted the VPN from its app store.
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