Big tech and governments are monitoring and recording your eating activities. c/Privacy provides tips and tricks to protect your privacy against global surveillance.
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This has been a topic of discussion in tech for 10 years.
We all knew it was happening, we all thought it was gross, but that doesn’t help the moronic people who keep uninformed, and the US government from stepping in on anti competitive and invasive behaviour
In 2013, Facebook bought an Israeli company called Onavo for about $120 million. At the time, the app was marketed as a helpful VPN, a tool to protect your data, reduce mobile usage, and keep your online life secure.
What most users didn’t know: installing Onavo gave Facebook complete visibility into your phone. It allowed the company to monitor every app you opened, how long you used it, every website you visited, and even when you did it. Over 33 million people downloaded the app, believing they were protecting their privacy, when they were actually opening the door to corporate surveillance.
According to publicly available court documents and regulatory findings, Facebook used Onavo to identify trends and detect rising competition. The company monitored usage of popular apps like Houseparty, YouTube, Amazon, and Snapchat, collecting detailed behavioural data to assess which ones were becoming threats.
Snapchat was the biggest target
By 2016, Snapchat’s popularity was exploding, but its traffic was encrypted, so Facebook couldn’t see exactly how users were engaging with it. That led to the creation of “Project Ghostbusters”, a covert effort to bypass Snapchat’s encryption and get a closer look at what users were doing on the app.
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