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Apple And Google Are Sending Your Push Notifications to The Government (odysee.com)
submitted 1 year ago by PoseidonsWake@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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In this video I discuss how a recent DOJ letter revealed that Apple and Google were sending peoples push notifications to foreign governments.

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[–] LdyMeow@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] Skimmer@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Removing the notifications permission doesn't prevent them from being sent. Source

[–] LdyMeow@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Awesome, thanks for the source!

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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.