Comment by haxrob

> from what I can tell FB paid SC users to participate in “market research” and install the proxy.

The app was available on both the Google Play and Apple App stores for anyone to download.

> The way most of the writeups make it sound is that it’s some sort of hack, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.

It could be that you are confused with a previous case. From the blog post:

> The wiretapping claim is new and perhaps not to be confused with the prior controversy and litigation: In 2023, two subsidiaries of Facebook was ordered to pay a total of $20M by the Australian Federal Court for "engaging in conduct liable to mislead in breach of the Australian Consumer Law", according to the ACCC ... Facebook had shutdown Onavo in 2019 after an investigation revealed they had been paying teenagers to use the app to track them. Also that year, Apple went as far as to revoke Facebook's developer program certificates, sending a clear message.

> If this is wiretapping, is it also wiretapping for me to use a local SSL proxy to decrypt and analyze traffic to a service’s API

If by "local" on your own network/machine with your own traffic then obviously no.