Facebook Hacked Users Phones to Snoop on Encrypted Data
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…