Comment on Apple And Google Are Sending Your Push Notifications to The Government

G4ME@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• potoo22@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was wondering how Signal handles this. Thanks for the info.

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• narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I want to add that WhatsApp doesn’t send message content within notifications either.

  I know WhatsApp isn’t very popular around here (for valid reasons), but it uses end-to-end encryption, notifications or not.

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  • Claidheamh@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it uses end-to-end encryption

    At least they say they do, but we can’t really verify that.

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Based and never-trust-Facebook-pilled

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  • Gekoloniseerd@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well they say they don’t but when the police wants insight on the conversations they will get it quick.

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• LdyMeow@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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?

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  • Skimmer@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It does not stop the notifications from being sent. Source

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    • LdyMeow@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Awesome, thanks for the source!

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  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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• narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I want to add that WhatsApp doesn’t send message content within notifications either.

  I know WhatsApp isn’t very popular around here (for valid reasons), but it uses end-to-end encryption, notifications or not.

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