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The federal government is using data from push notifications to track contacts

"Apple and Google had been told to keep the practice secret until Sen. Ron Wyden revealed it in a letter Wednesday"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/06/push-notifications-surveillance-apple-google/

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Federal government is using data from push notifications to track contacts

Apple and Google had been told to keep the practice secret until Sen. Ron Wyden revealed it in a letter Wednesday.

The Washington Post

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Ray Weitzenberg Dec 7, 2023

There's a lot to be concerned about here. But let me highlight just a couple:

° There's a potential erosion to personal and communication privacy if government investigators can access device token data merely by demand.
° The Justice Department's lack of transparency, sets up an easy to imagine risk that innocent citizens’ data maybe extracted in dragnets.
° The Justice Department has gagged Apple and Google, prohibiting the companies from telling the users their data was handed over.