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New: Sen. Ron Wyden is warning that governments are spying on Apple and Google phone users through their push notifications.

Wyden says Apple and Google can be “secretly compelled by governments to hand over this information.”

An Apple spokesperson told TechCrunch that it was prohibited from disclosing the surveillance, but will add to its upcoming transparency report "now that this method has become public."

More: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/06/us-senator-warns-governments-spying-apple-google-smartphone-users-via-push-notifications/

"Notice me."

I hope everyone enjoys their evenings as much as my cat Toby enjoys basking in the evening sun.

New: Amazon's Ring agrees to pay $5.8M after staff and contractors were caught snooping on customer videos, according to an FTC complaint.

The FTC said that Ring staff and contractors "could also readily download any customer’s videos and then view, share, or disclose those videos at will."

More: https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/31/amazon-ring-ftc-settlement-lax-security/

New by @carlypage and @lorenzofb: Amazon's Ring won't say if it was hacked after a notorious ransomware group claimed an attack.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/14/ring-alphv-ransomware-attack/

How app changelogs should be vs. how app changelogs usually are.