Apple releases Transparency Report for first half of 2024

As noted by 404 Media, Apple has quietly updated its Transparency Report page with data from January through June 2024, revealing some interesting trends in the cat-and-mouse game between the company and worldwide governments regarding our data. It is worth noting that Apple’s Transparency Report release schedule has been pretty inconsistent. Still, the new report, which comes just three months after Apple released its data relative to July–December, 2023, highlights how much real-world user data Apple is handing over, and how government tactics are evolving to get it. U.S. push-token requests are way up… but Apple is mostly saying no One of the most controversial disclosures in recent years has involved so-called “push-token” data, which is metadata that can identify which device received a specific notification from which app, and sometimes even unencrypted message content. As 404 Media noted, this issue blew up in late 2023, after Senator Ron Wyden revealed that both Apple and ... Read full article.