The US government is forcing Google and Apple to share push notification data with them. Even if the content is not sent, the metadata alone can let them know who you are talking to and when using metadata correlation.
Signal push notifications don’t contain any useful plain text data (no content, no information about who sent you a message). AFAIK the only thing you would be leaking is that you received a message on signal, and frankly that metadata is probably going to be leaked to the US government regardless of your use of push notifications.
This doesn’t matter because everyone should be using signal.
It is a great app, but you cannot fit everyone into a single app.
Examples why I personally sometimes don’t want to use Signal:
Signal is super giga great, the cons list is short, but if we want everyone to use something it has to be an universal protocol, not one app.
With notifications turned off
Why?
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/apple-governments-surveil-push-notifications/
The US government is forcing Google and Apple to share push notification data with them. Even if the content is not sent, the metadata alone can let them know who you are talking to and when using metadata correlation.
Signal push notifications don’t contain any useful plain text data (no content, no information about who sent you a message). AFAIK the only thing you would be leaking is that you received a message on signal, and frankly that metadata is probably going to be leaked to the US government regardless of your use of push notifications.
it’s not the content in the noti, it’s where your phone was connected when it received it
They get that from the carrier already
Seriously. Who wants to know when people are talking to them? GO AWAY, PEOPLE. GOSH.
Honestly for most people this is a crazy level of paranoia. The US government can know the metadata of my friends birthday party organization group.
Besides your mum, she uses WhatsApp to ask me for money