- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.zip
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.zip
Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data::Apple to update transparency report to break out push notification data requests.
If you can give them that, give me that. Give me a log of my own notifications please!!! Please!!! Ffs…
Fr. Here I am writing a diary when the NSA could just send me a wrapped instead. But noooooo they can’t give me the snooping data 🙄
Oh no, who would’ve thought that they follow the rules of their country… What a surprise…
What does this mean for apps like signal?
For Signal, they will know when and how often you receive Signal messages.
Notifications are used to “activate” the app on your device. Then it will connect to Signal servers and download the encrypted messages.
After the software on your device decrypted the message, then it has the sender details and message content.
There are settings to control how much of that information is used when creating the local notification. Because other apps might log notifications.
don’t know about iOS, but on Android Signal doesn’t send the content of messages through Google’s servers.