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Wasn't it the case that Facebook, one of the biggest American companies, bought Onavo precisely to spy on other tech companies and steal their business?

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There is a HUGE difference between doing analytics/business intelligence (albeit a bit of a sketchy app, though users consented) and directly hacking into competitors with the express intent on stealing IP, which is more of the issue at hand.

According to whom?

I find them different ways of accomplishing the same thing: securing a business edge

Onavo, a VPN that secretly did device-wide spying, doesn't count as a "hack" because...?

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