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.
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 Snapchat, Amazon, and YouTube user data, documents reveal
"Project Ghostbusters" lies at the core of it all.
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 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.
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.
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EFF’s team of technologists and computer scientists engineers solutions to the problems of sneaky tracking, inconsistent encryption, and more. Where users face threats to their privacy and security
Facebook’s Attack on Research is Everyone's Problem
Facebook recently banned the accounts of several New York University (NYU) researchers who run Ad Observer, an accountability project that tracks paid disinformation, from its platform. This has
bsky.app | WhoTracks.Me
Explore the tracking landscape of bsky.app on WhoTracks.Me, revealing the most common trackers like Sentry and their impact on privacy
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.
How Slack and Discord became tools for worker revolt
Lots of tech worker movements got their start on Slack and Discord, even if the creators of those apps would rather not talk about it.
Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China (Published 2016)
The social network, blocked in China since 2009, has developed software to keep posts from appearing in users’ news feeds in specific geographic areas, current and former employees said.
We Hunted Hidden Secret Police Signals at the DNC in Chicago
The US is a secret police state. Using special software, WIRED collected signals from nearly 300,000 devices, revealing vulnerabilities for both law enforcement and everyday citizens alike.
PACT: Anonymous Credentials for the Web – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
A deeper look at PACT: a new initiative to tackle the rising tide of CAPTCHAs on the web whilst keeping the web open and preserving user's privacy.
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