Thousands, you say? gasp
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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Exactly. Out of the trillions that they probably process every day, over several years, they only had to turn over “thousands”. If the government can find a bunch of loopholes to get what they want, then that’s hardly the fault of Apple.
If the worst you can say about Apple is that they still, very rarely, are forced to turn over data to the government due to bureaucratic loopholes and are no fault of their own, then I still stand behind them.
And if they got anything useful out of that data? Then it is the fault of the actors for not properly encrypted their data when they have the opportunity.
Both google and apple designed notification services that enble spying on your activities on the device.
Also, that's the requests that were done by "law enforcement"
Anything "national security" won't be reported there.
The story here is that mega corps collect this information. This information can be used against you.
Don't be naive.
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Apple’s transparency reports are interesting to look at, though I think the last update was June 2024.
Here’s the latest update for the US.
We've known about this for a long time. Google too. Apple publishes it in their transparency reports now.
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And that is why we use ntfy :)
Not the main instance ofc because then you have one big silo again, but there are plenty of publicly hosted servers.
Selfhosted gotify rules
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