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Apple Makes It Harder for Police to Access Your Push Notifications (gizmodo.com)
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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It’s possible that they could encrypt and anonymize this data with yet another set of tokenization, but that would be quite an effort on their part. As for not keeping the data, the metadata, itself, it’s necessary in order to coordinate the sending and delivery of push notifications between apps, services, and your devices. It needs to exist.