Meta has lots of data through Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, but thats not enough for them.
Thus, Project Ghostbusters was born.
Metas Onavo unit has a history of usinginvasive techniquesto collect data on Facebooks users.
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It gave Facebook valuable intel about competitors, and this weeks court filings seem to confirm that.
A team of senior executives and roughly41 lawyersworked on Project Ghostbusters, according to court filings.
The group was heavily concerned with whether to continue the program in the face of press scrutiny.
Facebook ultimatelyshut down Onavo in 2019after Apple booted the VPN from its app store.
The court filings show chats and emails that depict Zuckerberg as being directly involved in these communications.
However, Meta denies its CEO was anywhere near this.
Meta also noted that there was nothing new here, continuing that this issue was reported on years ago.
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