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Re: FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages

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It's one of those problems where as soon as someone notices, it's crazy that no one noticed. I can't imagine this not being overhauled going forward. It's just a bad way to operate and now it's news.

> I can't imagine this not being overhauled going forward. On which end, Apple or Signal? Because neither Apple nor Google will overhaul this behavior, the FBI asked for it directly: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...

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> Because neither Apple nor Google will overhaul this behavior, the FBI asked for it directly

Article:

> Apple has since confirmed in a statement provided to Ars that the US federal government “prohibited” the company “from sharing any information,” but now that Wyden has outed the feds, Apple has updated its transparency reporting and will “detail these kinds of requests” in a separate section on push notifications in its next report. Ars verified that Apple’s law enforcement guidelines now notes that push notification records “may be obtained with a subpoena or greater legal process.”

I don't read it that way. But I suppose we'll never know. Or if we find out, it'll be in around fifty years.

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