Apple And Google Are Sending Your Push Notifications to The Government - eviltoast

In this video I discuss how a recent DOJ letter revealed that Apple and Google were sending peoples push notifications to foreign governments.

  • LdyMeow@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    What I wonder about is if the push notifications are ‘sent’ anyway, ie through the network and the phone just doesn’t do anything with them? Does anyone know?

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Exactly. The issue is that the app still sends the notification to the cloud server. The cloud server doesn’t forward that notif to your device if you have notifs turned off, but it still gets sent to the server regardless. Which means it’s still subject to be shared with the government.