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Apple confirms governments using push notifications to surveil users
- eddyg 3y agodupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38543155 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38543155
- Rastonbury 3y agoThis is apple's response/acknowledgement to the senator's revelation, unless Reuters updated the article
- lapcat 3y ago"In a statement given to Reuters, Apple said that Wyden's letter gave them the opening they needed to share more details with the public about how governments monitored push notifications."
- masto 3y agoJust as an aside on metadata, I find it really frustrating that I can't just read the statement. There's a MacRumors article about a Reuters article about something Apple told them. I went to the Reuters article, but it still only contains one quote pulled from "a statement". I don't imagine Apple sent a major news organization an on-the-record statement with the restriction that they were only allowed to paraphrase it.
- dang 3y agoComments moved thither. Thanks! Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- kornhole 3y agoSo what solutions do we have? I run unified push on my Nextcloud server with app on device called Nextpush. This is used by some apps I use. Some apps use web sockets, but I understand this is resource consumptive when constantly running in the background. Some apps are able to piggy back on my Cheogram app for push notifications. I use an Android fork without any Google Play Services. I don't know what is possible with Iphones.
- cynicalsecurity 3y agoSo, just disable push notifications -> No tracking?
- 93po 3y agoI would assume that just prevents the display on your phone. Apps still send attempts at notifications through Apple servers I believe. This might work if you disable them in the app itself instead of your phone settings