The British Government is Reportedly Since its previous demand, Apple has been creating a secret backdoor that allows its principles access to customer data worldwide after a harsh reproach by the US government.
But a US senator wants to know if other technological giants, such as Google, have also received secret demands from the UK government and Google has so far refused to say.
Earlier this year, the Washington Post reported that the office at the UK house requested a secret court order in the UK Surveillance Court Requiring Apple to allow the United Kingdom Authorities to access the clouds of clouds from end to end stored to any customer in the world, including iPhone and iPad backups. Apple encrypts the data in such a way that only customers, not Apple, can access their data stored on its servers.
According to the United Kingdom Law, technology companies subject to secret surveillance court orders, such as Apple, are legally prohibited from disclosing details about an order or existence of the class itself, despite the fact that Details of demand that is leaking public earlier this year. Critics called the secret order against Apple “Draconian”, saying it would have a global consequences for users’ privacy. Apple has since appealed to the legality of the order.
In a new letter sent to the leading US employee Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday, Senator Ron Wyden, who is serving in the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that while technology companies cannot say if they have been instructed by the United Kingdom, at least one technological giant he had not received.
Meta, which uses end to end to protect the user messages sent between WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, told Wyden’s office on March 17 that the company “has not been ordered to return our encrypted services, as mentioned for Apple”.
Google, for its part, refused to tell Wyden’s office whether he had received a UK government order to access encrypted data, such as backups by Android, “only that if he had received a notification of technical capabilities, he would be prohibited from disclosing this fact,” Wyden said.
Google spokesman, Karl Ryan, told TechCrunch in a statement: “We have never built any mechanism or” backdoor “to bypass end -to -end encryption. If we say that a product is end -to -end, it is.”
When explicitly asked by TechCrunch, Google would not say if it has been ordered by the UK government to date.
Wyden’s letter first mentioned by The Washington Post and shared with TechCrunchHe called on GABBARD to publicize the “evaluation of the national security risks entitled by the laws on the UK and the reported secret demands of US companies”.
