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Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users (www.macrumors.com)
submitted 1 year ago by DannyMac to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Sounds just like the idea that governments can retrieve metadata from phone calls without much hassle.

I’m not sure there is much you could do to get around this on iOS besides disabling push notifications in your app.