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Facebook paid teenagers to install a VPN app, then used it to monitor their usage of Snapchat (techcrunch.com)

submitted 5 months ago by ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml to c/technology@lemmygrad.ml

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The VPN app would send every information possible about the user to Facebook. One of the things it did was to be a man-in-the-middle that decrypted the internet traffic to and from Snapchat so that Meta could collect analytics on how people were using Snapchat.

Meta is such a piece of shit company.

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[–] penquin@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But hey, we need to ban TikTok for "national security".

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 5 months ago

In this case "national security" means ensuring US intelligence affiliated companies have full access to control over everything people do with internet connected devices.