Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications

Post by scarface_74 » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 2:09 PM UTC

ethbr1 wrote: post #48

Eumenes wrote: post #23

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Yeah he's awesome. /s In May 2017, Wyden co-sponsored the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, Senate Bill 720, which made it a federal crime, punishable by a maximum sentence of 20 years imprisonment,[88] for Americans to encourage or participate in boycotts against Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories if protesting actions by the Israeli government. The bill would make it legal for U.S. states…

If you require all your allies to be perfect people... ... you won't be left with many allies.

Post by calvinmorrison » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 2:11 PM UTC

JustLurking2022 wrote: post #67

Eumenes wrote: post #23

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Yeah he's awesome. /s In May 2017, Wyden co-sponsored the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, Senate Bill 720, which made it a federal crime, punishable by a maximum sentence of 20 years imprisonment,[88] for Americans to encourage or participate in boycotts against Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories if protesting actions by the Israeli government. The bill would make it legal for U.S. states…

That sounds like an attempt to ban political expression that is certainly protected by the First Amendment.

Post by smoldesu » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 2:13 PM UTC

iamshs wrote: post #79

omginternets wrote: post #31

I noted that Apple says the governments in question are allies of the United States. I wonder if this is a case of American intelligence outsourcing the surveillance of American citizens to foreign intelligence. If that is indeed the case, I’d expect a quid pro quo.

"democracies allied to the United States." - includes India too.

Post by fsflover » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 2:14 PM UTC

HumblyTossed wrote: post #80

MaxikCZ wrote: post #76

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I so hate when people put words "only" and "metadata" in the same sentence... They know you rang a phone sex line at 2:24 am and spoke for 18 minutes. But they don't know what you talked about. They know you called the suicide prevention hotline from the Golden Gate Bridge. But the topic of the call remains a secret. They know you got an email from an HIV testing service, then called your doctor, then visited an HIV…

Dude, did you read my point? I said it was still bad.

Post by indymike » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 2:16 PM UTC

cultureswitch wrote: post #84

chatmasta wrote: post #73

This, to me, is the more disturbing part of the article: > In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information," the company said in a statement. "Now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests. What is the point of transparency reports if they don't include major vectors of government surveillance? IMO such gag orders sh…

Seems like a pretty open and shut case of unconstitutional restriction of speech in the US. Especially when you consider the wording of the Apple communication saying that they can talk about it openly now that it's public knowledge.