A couple of years ago, I got a text from a friend that read simply, “This seems bad.” With it was a screenshot of something that did seem, at best, not great: an iPhone push notification from the ...

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There are 3 easy ways in both Chrome and Firefox to disable push notifications. You can disable push notifications for a single website or multiple websites or all ...

Numerous iOS apps are using background processes triggered by push notifications to collect user data about devices, potentially allowing the creation of fingerprinting profiles used for tracking.

Some Gmail complaints are perennial: Google won’t let me recover my account password, or a hacker has changed my two-factor authentication options. Now it seems you can add push notifications that ...

If you have push notifications turned on for sensitive apps, you may want to reconsider your settings. The United States government and foreign law enforcement can demand Apple and Google share ...

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 ...

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., warned that foreign governments are spying on smartphone users by compelling Apple and Google to turn over push notification records. Push notifications like news alerts, ...

iPhone apps are scooping up your data via push notifications, according to a new report. Credit: Getty Images Push notifications are being exploited to invasively collect user data once again, ...

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Governments are spying on U.S. smartphone users through the push notifications that they receive from apps, Senator Ron Wyden wrote in a letter to the Department of Justice on Wednesday and Apple ...