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Apple And Google Are Sending Your Push Notifications to The Government (odysee.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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In this video I discuss how a recent DOJ letter revealed that Apple and Google were sending peoples push notifications to foreign governments.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

It's the difference between polling notifications, where each app wakes up once a minute and goes to ask their respective servers if there are any new notifications, and push notifications which, as the name suggests, are pushed to your phone once they arrive so those apps can sleep.