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Investigators seek push notification metadata in 130 cases (go.theregister.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"App developers can encrypt these messages when they're stored (in transit they're protected by TLS) but the associated metadata – the app receiving the notification, the time stamp, and network details – is not encrypted."

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The fix would be very easy. Just don't store that data. But Google and Apple obviously want that data for themselves as well, for advertising.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The fix would be different - not have it go through "someone else's computer". Whenever "someone else's computer" is involved, you should just assume they log everything. Even if they don't do it and don't want to - they can be silently made to do so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

But there's also UnifiedPush. If apps used that, you could just selfhost that server. A lot of open source apps do use it. I, for example, have a phone with MicroG and I didn't enable cloud messaging. I also have a Nextcloud server, where I installed the UnifiedPush provider and I use NextPush on my phone as the UnifiedPush app. Works great and that way a lot of apps I have don't need to run in the background constantly.