Apple grabs its chance to tell users about push notification privacy

A senator's open letter making it public that iPhone push notifications can be used to track users has let Apple publish a warning about the topic.You can control what push notifications you see, but you can't stop governments using them for survelillanceOn Wednesday, Senator Wyden made a seemingly wild accusation that governments could use push notifications on iPhones and Android to spy on people. Apple immediately revealed that not only is this true, but also that the government had mandated that it not be revealed. Read more...