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CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users

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Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users

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CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users by tracking push notifications that move through Google's and Apple's servers, a US...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/39255

Is self-hosted enough to avoid push notifications going through Apple and Google servers?

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    How does it handle push notifications? If they come from googles push service then they’d be exploitable as well.

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      https://grapheneos.org/faq#notifications

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      Indeed - it seems that this tracking is done completely outside of the phone, asking the network where, physically, the push notification was delivered (Tower, time, and date) to locate the phone and ostensibly the owner of the phone.

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