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Apple And Google Are Sending Your Push Notifications to The Government (odysee.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months 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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Awesome, thanks for the source!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 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.