Government authorities have been snooping on smartphone users via push notifications sent out by applications, wrote a US senator in a letter to the Department of Justice on December 6.
Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has requested that the Department of Justice relax any existing limits on concerns about push notification surveillance.
More about push alerts Push alerts, he continues, are routed through a digital post office maintained by the phone's operating system suppliers.
This might provide governments with information about how users engage with specific apps, give them a peek at the whole text of a notice, and reveal some exposed data.
Wyden petitioned the Justice Department to allow Apple and Google to be honest about government demands for push notification surveillance.
Google and Apple admit spying and praise the letter Additionally, the two companies praised Wyden's letter and admitted that push notification spying has been going on for quite some time.
Apple also stated that it was not permitted to publish government demands for push notification data, but that it would begin telling people about it immediately.
Many users ignore push notifications, but they have sometimes caught the interest of technologists due to the difficulties of delivering them without passing data to Google or Apple.
This Cyber News was published on www.cysecurity.news. Publication date: Sat, 09 Dec 2023 16:13:04 +0000