“I can’t think of a good argument for why this is okay. No security person is ever comfortable with this, no matter what consent we get from the general public.”
In June 2016 Zuckerberg complained that Snapchat’s encryption left Facebook with no analytics and told staff to “figure out how to do this.” A month later the Onavo team proposed a “man-in-the-middle” kit to read Snapchat traffic, later extended to YouTube and Amazon. Facebook’s own head of security engineering objected in writing. It shipped anyway, and the public only learned of it from unsealed court documents eight years later.