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Investigators seek push notification metadata in 130 cases
(go.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2024
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If there’s a notification for an encrypted group chat, you can use that metadata to identify the devices of all parties involved in that chat, because the push system has to queue all that up and send it at the same time.
That’s just one valuable use of this data.