Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch
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A secret program called "Project Ghostbusters" saw Facebook devise a way to intercept and decrypt the encrypted network traffic of Snapchat users to study their behavior.
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    The project was part of the company’s In-App Action Panel (IAPP) program, which used a technique for “intercepting and decrypting” encrypted app traffic from users of Snapchat, and later from users of YouTube and Amazon, the consumers’ lawyers wrote in the document.

    Looks like they didn’t decrypt anything, just used MitM spyware.