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Does Graphene OS maintain the privacy of notifications from being recorded by third parties? (self.android)

submitted 3 months ago by MigratingtoLemmy to c/android

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I remember reading an article where the government and Google were able to read notifications and record them from every android device. I wonder if Graphene might have patched this problem, and if not, do they have any plans to do so?

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[–] bin_bash 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't recall any article like you said; can you provide me with a link?

Also, reading notifications is only possible if the notifications are not encrypted; otherwise, it is not possible.

And this relies on the service that is sending the notification and has nothing to do with the OS you are using.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/29/push-notification-surveillance-fbi/

[–] bin_bash 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hi,

This has nothing to do with reading notifications but getting an approximate location based on notifications.

Like I said, if the notifications are sent encrypted, there is no way to read them.

Regarding tracking locations based on push messages, the only way to avoid it is by carefully selecting which apps are allowed to send you notifications.

Again, it does not matter what operating system you are using.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Notifications using fcm are not encrypted, I can literally go into my firebase console ant see this is the case

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There is nothing stopping you from encrypting the payload instead of sending plain text.