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.

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Apple's Transparency Report for Canada 
Jan - June 2022

Apple Transparency report for US National Security H1 2022

US Gov't Requested personal data on ~75k devices from Apple in H1 2022

Interesting how much less data China demands of Apple than USA. Perhaps bc they have domestically hosted iCloud and don't need to ask Apple -- they can ask the local partner

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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