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Apple Makes It Harder for Police to Access Your Push Notifications (gizmodo.com)

submitted 10 months ago by celmit@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

oh, I se the misunderstanding— you’re confusing simple on-device app notifications with notifications using the Push service, which actually requires being sent through Apple’s or Google’s servers and may originate outside or your device from a service on a 3rd-party server.

[–] Steve@communick.news 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh! I didn't realize they actually went through Google or Apple servers. Not sure why that's a necessary step, but at least it explains why they would have the data at all.

Thanks

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, not all notifications originate from apps on your device. If, say, Amazon, updates, your delivery status, a push notification gets sent to your Amazon app from Amazon, then you get a notification on your device. That push notification goes through either googles servers or apples servers before it gets to you, that way, they know what device to send it to. That device ID is registered the app on your device with either Apple or Google on their servers.