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How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It)

How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It)

A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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biggerbogboy
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biggerbogboy
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I have always disabled them because they’re annoying as fuck, but I didn’t realise there were also privacy implications too, interesting.
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Da Cap’n
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Da Cap’n
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I have always disabled notifications for anything sensitive. I didn’t know all of the implications for a while, I was just being my paranoid self lol
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Telex
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Telex
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They're provably still happening, just not being shown to you.
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Maeve
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Maeve
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So this is in my backlog of "videos to watch when I have time": It's a long YT video, 1:45

youtu.be/t38LbMVoPCs

- YouTube

Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.
youtu.be
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assertnull
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assertnull
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I wasn’t able to tell by skimming … but does this Epstein related video have anything to do with the security implications of push notifications?
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Maeve
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Maeve
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World-renowned security expert Gavin de Becker reveals how governments read your messages, why Jeffrey Epstein was a construct, secrets from White House and CIA protection, and how to trust your gut and stay safe in a digital world...


First sentence in the description. 🙄

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biggerbogboy
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biggerbogboy
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same, and its even worse when it completely breaks you out of hyperfocus, which is why I especially dislike Discord's notification sound.
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