• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Oh I honestly didnt understand there’s a perpetual database you can go back and look at, I didnt even know i had one on android, I just turned that off.

    I understood it as they need a database to hold the notifications you should be shown and it gets purged eventually kinda thing.

    As a history it makes sense, and that its something that can leak.

    Also if you leave it on, uninstalling an app should definitely purge its history.

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      7 hours ago

      I understood it as they need a database to hold the notifications you should be shown

      that part can just happen in volatile memory

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        2 days ago

        The poor FBI has kinda triggered a Streisand effect. We used this thing no one knows about to win a case and shit now they know about it and are turning it off!