{"id":15500,"date":"2020-07-28T15:12:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T13:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/en\/?p=15500"},"modified":"2020-07-28T15:12:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T13:12:12","slug":"information-rocket-chat-push-notifications-for-mobile-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/information-rocket-chat-push-notifications-for-mobile-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Information: Rocket.Chat &#8211; push notifications for mobile clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[sc name=&#8220;head_betriebsmeldungen_en&#8220; message_id=&#8220;202007281505&#8243; time=&#8220;From 28 July 2020&#8243; affected=&#8220;Users of Rocket.Chat&#8220; impact=&#8220;Push notifications for mobile clients do not contain any content information&#8220; ]<\/p>\n<p>A very recent configuration change to push notifications for mobile clients for Rocket.Chat removed the content of author\/channel and a snippet of the text from these notifications. Clients still receive a notification about new messages but without content information.<\/p>\n<p>During an unrelated occasion it was discovered that Rocket.Chat sends push notifications to mobile clients through a gateway of the company Rocket.Chat and through Google&#8217;s Firebase Cloud Messaging service. The Firebase service is a common tool for this kind of purpose and utilized by other messaging service in a similar manner. Until the privacy aspect of relaying through a gateway of Rocket.Chat has been explored we decided to turn of sending content information for push notifications. A key aspect of operating our own chat service is the sovereignty of our users data and privacy, which led to this decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[sc name=&#8220;head_betriebsmeldungen_en&#8220; message_id=&#8220;202007281505&#8243; time=&#8220;From 28 July 2020&#8243; affected=&#8220;Users of Rocket.Chat&#8220; impact=&#8220;Push notifications for mobile clients do not contain any content information&#8220; ] A very recent configuration change to push notifications for mobile clients for Rocket.Chat removed the content of author\/channel and a snippet of the text from these notifications. Clients still receive a notification about &#8230; <a title=\"Information: Rocket.Chat &#8211; push notifications for mobile clients\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/information-rocket-chat-push-notifications-for-mobile-clients\/\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber Information: Rocket.Chat &#8211; push notifications for mobile clients\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-betriebsmeldungen","category-operating-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15502,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15500\/revisions\/15502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}