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“Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications” - https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-thousands-of-push-notifications/

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

History shows that once a vanguard of rogues and lawless individuals gets a hold on government, it is difficult to eject them.
Rather, the changes in government applied with force by this vanguard become normalized.
And that is what is happening here.
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“The Whole Government is DOGE Now”: The Coup's Second Wave Begins
A lawless vanguard infiltrated the U.S. government; now they are being institutionalized and will work with Project 2025's own democracy destroyers

Apple's July 2022 to June 2024 transparency report shows it gave governments data on thousands of push notifications, which can include unencrypted content (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-tho…

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

"Apple provided governments around the world with data related to thousands of push notifications sent to its devices, which can identify a target’s specific device or in some cases include unencrypted content."
https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governm

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

Watching Trump and Musk turn off the NOAA data centres, threatening irreplaceable archives of weather and climate data and analyses. Remembering when Stephen Harper’s government shut down a bunch of government libraries and archives, including literally throwing irreplaceable records in the trash.

The Harper Government Has Trashed and Destroyed Environmental Books and Documents
In the first few days of 2014, scientists, journalists, and environmentalists were horrified to discover that the Harper government had begun a process to close seven of the 11 of Canada's world-renowned Department of Fisheries and Oceans libraries...

Congratulations to all the "Elon's reign of terror is over" article writers from last week, great jorb
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-young-doge-converted-into-full-time-government-employees/

‘Big Balls’ Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee
The first wave of DOGE staffers was supposed to be gone after 130 days. Instead, core members of the team have signed on for the long haul.

DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite - The Washington Post #USA #Trump

DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite
New procedures and requirements — some implemented in the name of improving operations — are slowing down federal agencies.

Bridging the Artificial Intelligence Governance Gap: The United States' and China's Divergent Approaches to Governing General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence
Oliver Guest, Kevin Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03497

Bridging the Artificial Intelligence Governance Gap: The United States' and China's Divergent Approaches to Governing General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence
The United States and China are among the world's top players in the development of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems, and both are keen to lead in global AI governance and development. A look at U.S. and Chinese policy landscapes reveals differences in how the two countries approach the governance of general-purpose artificial intelligence (GPAI) systems. Three areas of divergence are notable for policymakers: the focus of domestic AI regulation, key principles of domestic AI regul…

'Big Balls' Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee (Makena Kelly/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-young-doge-converted-into-full-time-government-employees/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p61#a250604p61

Trump says Elon Musk "went CRAZY" and that canceling his government contracts is "the easiest way to save money", as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/trump-musk-crazy-…

Trump says Musk went 'CRAZY,' suggests cutting government contracts for his companies
Musk is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and founded The Boring Company, xAI and Neuralink. He also owns the social media platform X.