Senator's paranoia opens door for Apple to speak out on government censorship

Senator Ron Wyden has made a crazy-sounding claim that governments are spying on people's iPhone push notifications — and Apple says thank you, we weren't allowed to tell anyone.The claim is that governments can glean information from how many push notifications a person gets, and from what appsWhether push notifications are the blessing of the age or the curse of the century, it's the fact that they all work the same way that has led to an issue. Every app that gets to pop up some alert or information on users' iPhones, does so by send it via Apple's notification system. Read more...