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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday. In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials were demanding the data from Alphabet's Google and Apple. Apps of all kinds rely on push notifications to alert smartphone users to incoming messages, breaking news, and other updates.

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden claimed that governments are capable of spying on people’s iPhones and Google push notifications.

According a letter sent by a U.S. Senator, governments are using push notification data from Apple and Google to spy on smartphone user.

Apple says the US government barred it from publicly revealing how governments keep tabs on users via their push alerts.

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