In a smart move disguised as a privacy service, Facebook once transformed a trusted VPN into a powerful surveillance engine.

Armed with usage data, Facebook offered to buy Snapchat for $3 billion. When Snap CEO Evan Spiegel refused, Facebook didn’t ...

A batch of letters was unsealed last week in a lawsuit accusing Meta, formerly Facebook, of anticompetitive actions to keep ad prices high.

Meta used a spyware to access user activities on rival platforms, including Snapchat and YouTube, according to newly unsealed documents from a class action suit.

Facebook, now known as Meta, used a spyware system to spy on Snapchat traffic data in a project code-named "Ghostbusters," newly released documents allege.

Meta wrote targeted code based on Onavo tech In a separate court filing by Facebook advertisers, it’s alleged that by July 2013, Facebook had access to detailed intelligence on 30 million Onavo ...

The Onavo team created "kits that can be installed on iOS and Android that intercept traffic for specific subdomains, allowing us to read what would otherwise be encrypted traffic so we can ...

Facebook’s “In App Panel” program ran from 2016 to 2019 using Onavo’s technology as a man-in-the-middle attack to decrypt secured Snapchat traffic. Court documents unsealed as part of an ...

Though outlets have reported on Onavo's work tracking rival app usage, the details of Meta's role, the executives involved, and the surrounding communications have only come to light since the ...

Onavo could also be considered straight spyware, but also seems to fall under the definition of wiretapping, according to prosecutors.

Symbol’s founder and Managing Partner is Yuval Ariav, an accomplished entrepreneur part of the founding team of Onavo (acquired by Meta in 2013 for $200 million) and co-founder and first CTO of ...