Facebook Hacked Users Phones to Snoop on Encrypted Data

Matthew.Rosenquist
2 min readMar 26, 2024

Media is reporting that documents emerging from a legal case are revealing that in 2016 Facebook created a project to intercept and decrypt traffic on user’s phones to gain a competitive advantage.

I am still wrapping my head around the ethical, criminal, privacy, regulatory, and legal liability of Facebook essentially hijacking user’s mobile devices to gain access to…

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Matthew.Rosenquist

CISO and cybersecurity Strategist specializing in the evolution of threats, opportunities, and risks in pursuit of optimal security