Facebook had a parallel programme, which was basically the same ap for all intents and purposes. It caled he facebook research program, hing like that. But to your point, it was installed using face books developer certificate. And because it was side loaded, it had effectively complete access to the phoneye ind just like b supercs going on. So they could basely look in on traffic where they could get far more data than even the nova gryp sarry paging system would have been able to do.
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