Free VPN Apps on Google Play Turn Phones into Proxies
Several free Android VPN apps have been found to support a malicious residential proxy operation named ‘Proxylib.’
https://restoreprivacy.com/free-vpn-apps-on-google-play-turn-phones-into-proxies/
needed yet another reason not to trust VPN providers or proxy services...
Here Facebook partnered with a bunch of companies to have root certificates installed on people's phones so they could intercept other app's traffic.
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.369872/gov.uscourts.cand.369872.735.0.pdf
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@ecksmc 😮
I have facebook, messenger and instagram on a separate mini-iPad, which has a separate apple id than my phone. I only use that ipad for those apps. (And sometimes allrecipes) Does that thwart their snooping?
The wiretapping tool involved the company’s Onavo Virtual Private Network (VPN), which Facebook acquired from an Israeli firm in 2013 but is no longer in use.
That VPN service acquired by Facebook in 2013, which shut down six years later after it was found that Facebook secretly paid teenagers to use the service in order to access their web activity
that was called project Atlas
@ecksmc I have it locked down as much as possible. With so much family still using it, I can’t really delete it yet. I sure don’t post much there anymore though, just a few kid pics when they have a major event.
@AverageCitizen
In the case of Project Ghostbusters, the Onavo team proposed technology to intercept traffic for specific subdomains, that could be installed on both iOS and Android. These "kits" allowed Facebook to intercept encrypted data.
The project was a part of the company's In-App Action Panel (IAPP), a program run between 2016 and 2019
So you are all good now - other than their "normal" tracking that they use - guide to stop that here
https://allaboutcookies.org/how-to-turn-off-facebook-tracking