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Super interested in the book. Especially the part about the server side pushes chapter. I was wondering though, working in Europe, is even the simplest of server side push services GDPR compliant? Would love to know if the book touches on subjects like these as well. Looking forward to reading it either way!
@gargoyle Can you please help with this when you get a chance? Thank you - much appreciated! :]
Ah the fun of Europe’s myriad privacy laws. I have to put the caveat here that I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t speak for raywenderlich.com.
Having said that, my personal view is that push notifications, by themselves, don’t violate the GDPR. The token that Apple provides you doesn’t allow for any way to identify the user. If they restore their device, for example, they’ll get a brand new token.
The only way for you to send the server personally identifiable information is if you ask the user for those details and they allow them.
Now, what you do with a push notification is where you can get yourself into trouble. If you were to send a notification to users saying that Susy is going to be at the bar at 3pm on Monday, you start to get into murky areas.
Is there plan to do Push Notifications by Tutorials for Android? Yes, basic things are clear arleady but so is iOS version.
@macsimus @ericwastaken Can you please help with this when you get a chance? Thank you - much appreciated! :]
@vikarti We’ve put this on our list to consider for future Android courses and/or books. Thanks for the suggestion!