Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users "In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information. Now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests," Apple said in a statement.

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That wont work. In order to get badge you have to give Apple notification permission first. After that those toggles will just filter what you see, not what Apple will see.
DeGoogled phones don't have Firebase push. Makes life a little rough, but do what you gotta do. Telegram and Signal get notifications regardless. Amethyst now has Unified push capabilities. You can host Unified Push on your own Nextcloud. Nextcloud Services app on Andrpid can poll your server every 5 seconds or so. This seems to be the only way to get your self-hosted Nextcloud Talk to get notificatipns.
For sure. No Google services on my phone. Wont stop the people I message from having their nitification with Google or Apole though. It wont really matter what we do if others dont as well.
How would this help? The problem is not Apple the problem is apps that don’t E2E encrypt their push notification payload. fyi - Google has the same problem, they just didn’t admit it once they were free to like Apple did.
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JohnWick 2 years ago
apple itself is surveillance machine just like Google none of these tech companies can be trusted better get a pixel and flash it with graphene os, only way to go
I don't understand why people (Bitcoiners in particular) still hold on to their iPhones. Constant gatekeeping, surveillance, incompatible with our lifestyle but hey... they're cool and so "convenient".
I don't know. At least with Graphene I don't constantly have to find workarounds for living my lifestyle. It seems obvious that Apple will always gatekeep against Bitcoin or other "freedom tech" software and of course they'll continue working with the Government(s).
Exactly. Everyone that uses GrapheneOS likes to ingore closed source Tensor chip it runs on. You cant degoogle with a Pixel. Its not possible.
I think the hardware is the dangerous part. The software isnt running on open hardware. Tensor is closed source. Degoogled phones are not degoogled.
why: notifications disrupt focus on other peoples terms. leaving notifications off empower when to engage. always has. wtf: .gov exploits notifications to surveil and $goog & $appl obliged. action: peel back fiat peace-by-piece View quoted note →
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JohnWick 2 years ago
"better than ur avg android or ios" Its based on your threat model if ur threat model is directly from govt then better avoid a phone or build one yourself 😊
For sure. Anything online isnt private. Its weird though, people saying degoogled phone while using a googled phone. 😂
^This. If anyone thinks Tensor wouldn't come with built in backdoors, they probably don't remember when Qualcomm was caught doing just that in Samsung Galaxies. That said, mass surveillance is automated, and replacing the phone's operating system will mess with the spooks' workflow big time.
Hmm, maybe just having your family all have satellite phones then? Honestly it seems like you basically have to take yourself back to the stone age to enjoy the privacy that people in the 80s used to enjoy
@Rif'at Ahdi R @yoiyok @NakamotoX "A source familiar with the matter confirmed that both foreign and U.S. government agencies have been asking 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐆𝐋𝐄 for metadata related to push notifications. The data is said to have been used to attempt to tie anonymous users of messaging apps to specific Apple or Google accounts." "Earlier this year French developer David Libeau said users and developers were often unaware of how their apps emitted data to the U.S. tech giants via push notifications, calling them "a privacy nightmare." View quoted note →