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- Apple has updated its law enforcement guidelines to now require a court order or search warrant if the government wants data around push notification records.
- This brings Apple to par with Google, which said that it already requires the same for actions on its end.
It recently came to light that Apple and Google were letting governments spy on their users through push notifications. Both companies acknowledged the issue. Google already used to detail governmental requests for users’ push notification data, and Apple committed to updating its transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests. Now, Apple is making it harder for the government to obtain a user’s push notification data by requiring a court order or search warrant to obtain the same.
As Reuters reports, Apple has recently updated its publicly available law enforcement guidelines. The company now requires a judge’s order or search warrant before it will hand over the Apple ID, registered APN token, and associated recorders to the government.
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