forging a Snapchat certificate and signing it with its own.

Sounds to me like that should be a violation of Title 18 U.S. Code § 1030, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. A violation for every individual message that was intercepted.

All C-level employees or board members that knew of the program and did not blow a whistle should be tried, in addition to the company itself being fined.

Yes this would likely kill Facebook on fines alone. The fact nothing even remotely close to this will never happen shows how much power we've willingly given up as citizens by electing politicians for businesses and refusing to remove money from politics.

I'm interested to see what, if anything, comes from this case.

Seems like pretty cut and dry; large scale criminal wire tapping by a private corporation...

I'm glad I abandoned Facebook/Meta and all its affiliates long ago. Just not long ago enough... :/

So are we on the precipice of the worlds largest lawsuit from Snap or do they have an interest in letting this slide?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The documents were filed in a class-action lawsuit from consumers and advertisers, accusing Meta of anticompetitive behavior that blocks rivals from competing in the social media ads market.

"Whenever someone asks a question about Snapchat, the answer is usually that because their traffic is encrypted, we have no analytics about them," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (who has since rebranded his company as Meta) wrote in a 2016 email to Javier Olivan.

The IAAP program's purpose was to gather granular insights into users' engagement with rival apps to help Facebook develop products as needed to stay ahead of competitors.

Olivan was told that these so-called "kits" used a "man-in-the-middle" attack typically employed by hackers to secretly intercept data passed between two parties.

Mike Schroepfer, then-chief technology officer, argued that Facebook wouldn't want rivals to employ a similar program analyzing their encrypted user data.

While the unsealed emails detailing the project have recently raised eyebrows, Meta's spokesperson told Ars that "there is nothing new here—this issue was reported on years ago.

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