Any term can be subjective. But for this case I doubt this is some personal invention, and most likely a reference to countries that are considered ally by a broad part of the public.
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Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users
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What about an OS level handling of the PUSH encryption, if they are reaching out to apple services etc., couldn't the IS automatically step in, encrypt on device before it leaves and that solves the problem, universally encrypted push notification, take that step out of the app dev hands or add in a gatekeeper point at the OS love that don't allow the children go out without their hat, coat and gloves!
Just my 2c with not enough idea of the technical complexity involved.
Just my 2c with not enough idea of the technical complexity involved.
I was listening to music on the same iPhone I read this article on, and a the following song by Rockwell played. Clearly the Music app is in on it. 😂
I used to shrug off the slow creep of privacy invasion with the classic excuse that I don't do anything worth worrying about. Then in my home country of Canada they repeatedly hired a glorified sock puppet as their head of state and he proceeded to freeze people's bank accounts if they had a different opinion than he did regarding free speech...
Libertarian perspectives need to be shared widely while we still have a semblance of democracy.
I used to shrug off the slow creep of privacy invasion with the classic excuse that I don't do anything worth worrying about. Then in my home country of Canada they repeatedly hired a glorified sock puppet as their head of state and he proceeded to freeze people's bank accounts if they had a different opinion than he did regarding free speech...
Libertarian perspectives need to be shared widely while we still have a semblance of democracy.
Apple told everyone, I think it was 5 years ago, that they are legally not allowed to disclose everything.
Well I wasn’t aware of that so they didn’t tell everyone, but fair enough. Either way, that only really matters if one’s goal is defending Apple. The wider issue is that it’s happening at all, and the even more important question of what else is going on that we don’t yet know about or never will. This kind of entanglement between corporation and state has a name, and it begins with F and ends with M.
That’s my view anyway. Goes without saying you’re free to disagree 👍
Incorrect. Apple does not know what you are doing on your device. Only that an interaction has occurred on their servers which is bad enough.
The only way to not have this is to have peer to peer where possible.
Well to be fair I didn’t get the email either, but I knew.
In apples defense they have no recourse.
This is a whole other issue.
Yep and you know that will happen.
For those that love more government---this is what you get. Good luck getting the toothpaste back into the tube...All under the guise of "for your safety".
Security is a constant battle that is only won when the device is turned off.
This is why we can't have nice things. Any data sharing, for any purpose, seems to be a target of mass surveillance.
Funny how people see the evidence of a plutocracy and call it communism. The capitalists have you trained very well while they plunder and pillage right in front of your face.
Some facts are in Apples favor, but doesn't necessarily mean I defend it. Or disagree with your wider sentiment. I just think it important to get facts straight, as then it is easier to bark up all the trees as needed. It was written a lot about this, even here on Macrumors when Apple released its first transparency report as it stated that they were not allowed to release certain and exact information.
If it helps - but does not completely answer:
Q: If an app attempts to send a notification to an iOS device that is either powered off or has no network connectivity push notifications need to be kept in queue.
For how long does Apple retain notifications to allow the device time to contact the APNS servers?
A: “It depends on the service that sent the notification in the first place. The service (i.e. the backend system that supports an app such as Facebook or any other app) sends their notifications to Apple's push notificationservice over a HTTP/2-based API. In that API it sets a parameter known as "apns-expiration", which determines how long time Apple's push notification service will queue the notification to be delivered when the device is online again.
The "apns-expiration" parameter can be set to 0, which means that it won't be queued at all.
If set to a higher number than 0 that is the number of seconds, the message will be queued.
Finally, the service can choose not to send the parameter at all, or send it as -1 (negative). This means it should be queued for as long as possible.
The maximium queue time is not infinite, but is chosen by Apple - and seemingly not documented anywhere. However, PC World described in 2009 that the maximum at that time was 28 days:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/167652/the_limits_of_apples_push_notification_for_the_iphone.html
--jksoegaard”
So it seems the device would have to be off-line for about a month before each push notification gives up. So I’ll assume disabling push notifications is in the phone and thus traceable?
I'm already on the list, I have a shared meme album on iCloud, they probably been tracking me for years, at least I give them a good laugh
Someone I know did some lobbying for one political party where I lived. Funnily, he asked another “connected” person to pull up his file and was able to see what they had. It was boring, sort of like an Equifax report.
People are mostly boring. You really have to work at it to impress NSA types these days.