The Snapchat data-interception scheme is described in that newly unsealed court document as a 'man-in-the-middle' approach, in which Facebook essentially paid people to snoop on their mobile phones.
Not only did it enable Facebook to issue itself digital certificates to intercept people's encrypted SSL/TLS connections, it also quietly redirected Snapchat analytics traffic (and subsequently Amazon and YouTube analytics) to Onavo's servers.
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