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Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2023
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To be fair Google was already making this information public via their transparency reports, albeit in aggregate, since 2010 [0].
Apple conveniently played it safe until the coast was clear. Maybe they'd have been allowed to comment on this privacy issue if they published it in aggregate like Google - e.g. not specifically calling out the U.S. Govt? But that wasn't a risk Apple was willing to take for its users.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_report