Facebook bans ‘cyber mercenaries’ who snooped on 50,000 users in over 100 countries

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Meta calls for collective effort from platforms, policymakers, and civil society to counter surveillance-for-hire market

Outlining the stages involved in this cyber-spying process, Facebook’s parent company noted the first step was “reconnaissance”, where cyber mercenaries secretly profiled users on behalf of their clients—a stage that is usually the least visible to targets.

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