Apple will now tell us when governments demand push notification records

Editor’s note: Updates 12/7/2023 with an update to Apple’s Legal Process Guidelines. U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon announced on Wednesday that he has requested that the Department of Justice allow Apple and Google to be more transparent about surveillance of mobile push notifications. Wyden’s request comes after becoming aware of “a tip that government agencies in foreign countries were demanding smartphone ‘push’ notification records,” according to Wyden’s letter to the DoJ. “These companies should be permitted to generally

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