Facebook's Onavo VPN used to wiretap competitor user data, court filings reveal. Meta, Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp/Threads parent company, employed its controversial VPN service as a way to intercept and decrypt people’s private information. Given Facebook’s 15+ year history of violating people’s private data to make more money maybe Congress should consider banning them too given that we don’t know which foreign companies and foreign political parties Facebook is sharing people’s private data with.