Apple and Google won't say if foreign governments are keeping tabs on you through your push alerts, senator says

• US Sen. Ron Wyden wants to know if foreign governments are compelling Apple and Google to let them monitor users' activity.
• Wyden said his office got a tip last year that foreign officials were demanding data. 
• Apple said the US government barred it from revealing this practice.

Apple and Google won't reveal if foreign government officials have compelled them to share some users' push notification data to aid in investigations into people of interest, a US lawmaker said.

"I write to urge the Department of Justice (DOJ) to permit Apple and Google to inform their customers and the general public about demands for smartphone app notification records," Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden said in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland this week.