A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. They’re important enough to government investigations that Apple and Google now both require a judge’s order to hand details about push notifications over...
  • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
    18 hours

    I have always disabled them because they’re annoying as fuck, but I didn’t realise there were also privacy implications too, interesting.

      • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
        9 hours

        same, and its even worse when it completely breaks you out of hyperfocus, which is why I especially dislike Discord’s notification sound.

  • Da Cap’n@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    18 hours

    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

    • Telex@sopuli.xyz
      12 hours

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

    • assertnull@programming.devEnglish
      16 hours

      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?

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        14 hours

        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. 🙄