US gov't lifts gag order on Apple/Google re: subpoena for indentifying notifications data. Anything signals not built to be private by default will eventually be acquired.

I think this setting in “Settings > Notifcations > Messages > (Lock Screen Appearance) Show Previews” might be the right one to sidestep involuntarily participating in this dataset. Enabled, now to see how annoying it is…

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wonder if apple could decrypt notifs with secure enclave such that the tokens with phones done reveal text unless you hold a authd device

So you get a collapsed notif until you auth with the device’s biometrics or whatever? Once auth’d it would decrypt and unfurl? I like that… if it’s not on their roadmaps, it should be :)

yes, faceid equipped devices already do this as end user privacy UX. maybe do the same thing for the messages in flight, but with device passkeys as decryption key.

I suppose it's encrypted over the wire (ssl etc) but readable from apple's servers, thus available for subpoena. wonder if their architecture would allow apps to encrypt notif contents for the specific phone, or if they need to process on the cloud

Right, this is a privacy feature in the sense that someone picking up your phone can’t see it, but I assume it’s not encrypted until unlocked… just undisclosed.