Amolith on Nostr: Police Can Spy on Your iOS and Android Push Notifications ...
Police Can Spy on Your iOS and Android Push Notifications
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-google-push-notification-surveillance/
They can view all the metadata related to your push notifications, but not the actual content … unless they request that content from the application developer.
> To identify a person of interest and whom they may have been communicating with, law enforcement must first go to an app developer to obtain the relevant push token and then bring it to the operating system maker—Apple or Google—and request information on which account the token is associated with.
> […]
> … the records that governments can obtain from Apple and Google include metadata that reveals which apps a person has used, when they’ve received notifications, and the phone associated with a particular Google or Apple account. The content of push notifications is not included in this information, but, for at least some apps, law enforcement could obtain information about the content of specific pushes through additional requests based on the information from the push tokens.
Self-hosted UnifiedPush systems are becoming more and more attractive.
https://unifiedpush.org
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-google-push-notification-surveillance/
They can view all the metadata related to your push notifications, but not the actual content … unless they request that content from the application developer.
> To identify a person of interest and whom they may have been communicating with, law enforcement must first go to an app developer to obtain the relevant push token and then bring it to the operating system maker—Apple or Google—and request information on which account the token is associated with.
> […]
> … the records that governments can obtain from Apple and Google include metadata that reveals which apps a person has used, when they’ve received notifications, and the phone associated with a particular Google or Apple account. The content of push notifications is not included in this information, but, for at least some apps, law enforcement could obtain information about the content of specific pushes through additional requests based on the information from the push tokens.
Self-hosted UnifiedPush systems are becoming more and more attractive.
https://unifiedpush.org