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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ ( yogthos@lemmy.ml )  to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months ago

How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It)

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How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It)

www.eff.org

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ ( yogthos@lemmy.ml )  to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months ago
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A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. And there are myriad ways that law enforcement can access the content or metadata of push notifications. Let’s fix that.
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  • Da Cap’n ( Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    I have always disabled notifications for anything sensitive. I didn’t know all of the implications for a while, I was just being my paranoid self lol

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      They’re provably still happening, just not being shown to you.

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    So this is in my backlog of “videos to watch when I have time”: It’s a long YT video, 1:45

    https://youtu.be/t38LbMVoPCs

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      I wasn’t able to tell by skimming … but does this Epstein related video have anything to do with the security implications of push notifications?

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        World-renowned security expert Gavin de Becker reveals how governments read your messages, why Jeffrey Epstein was a construct, secrets from White House and CIA protection, and how to trust your gut and stay safe in a digital world…

        First sentence in the description. 🙄

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          Ah, got it 👍

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