Onavo - Facebook Spyware

Apple bans Facebook's Research app that paid users for data | TechCrunch

In the wake of TechCrunch's investigation yesterday, Apple blocked Facebook's Research VPN app before the social network could voluntarily shut it down.

Facebook snooped on Snapchat, Amazon, and YouTube user data, documents reveal

"Project Ghostbusters" lies at the core of it all.

Copycat: How Facebook Tried to Squash Snapchat

In an excerpt from a new book on Snapchat, Billy Gallagher explains how Facebook fought back against a tiny rival's challenge.

Project 'Ghostbusters': Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat data, docs allege

New docs from a monopoly lawsuit shed light on Facebook's "Ghostbusters" project.

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.

Apple revokes Facebook’s developer certificate over data-snooping app—Google could be next

Both bypassed the App Store to distribute their data-collection apps to users.

Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them | TechCrunch

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a "Facebook Research" VPN that lets the company suck in all of

Apple removes Facebook's Onavo security app from the App Store

Facebook's Onavo app has been used to collect consumer data in addition to providing security.

Man-in-the-middle attack

In cryptography and computer security, a man-in-the-middle[a] (MITM) attack, or on-path attack, is a cyberattack where the attacker secretly relays and possibly alters the communications between two parties who believe that they are directly communicating with each other, where in actuality the attacker has inserted themselves between the two user parties.

Facebook will shut down its spyware VPN app Onavo | TechCrunch

Facebook will end its unpaid market research programs and proactively take its Onavo VPN app off the Google Play store in the wake of backlash following