This is editorialised. Users took part in a study which gave Meta permission to analyse network traffic while using a VPN product. It required users to install

This is editorialised. Users took part in a study which gave Meta permission to analyse network traffic while using a VPN product. It required users to install a root CA. Although this is incredibly shady, it’s nothing different to companies paying analytics companies which partner with VPN and adware companies to provide the same data. The only difference is Facebook owned the process end-to-end and didn’t mitigate the reputational risk associated with the collection. Which is surprising. Nobody in the Risk department considered this. Perhaps because it was too secretive, and didn’t ultimately go through enough hoops to get that level of review.