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Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 days ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

all they can see is the times at which your messaging app was asked to wake up. Not whether any message was actually received, or what it contained, or from who.

Here's what Senator Ron Wyden had to say on the matter:

The data these two companies receive includes metadata, detailing which app received a notification and when, as well as the phone and associated Apple or Google account to which that notification was intended to be delivered. In certain instances, they also might also receive unencrypted content, which could range from backend directives for the app to the actual text displayed to a user in an app notification.

So they know:

What app received the notification
when it was received
who it was sent to

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know, are they? As far as we know they could only get unsent notifications, which are obviously still with Apple/Google because the target phone is offline and so they couldn't be delivered yet. Which would explain why they only got thousands of them, not billions.