The British government is Allegedly going backwards From his earlier requirement that Apple has built a secret back door, so that its authorities have access to customer data worldwide, according to a hard reprimand from the US government. But an American senator wants to know whether other technical giants, such as Google, have also received secret backdoor requirements from the British government.
Google refused to answer the questions of the legislator, but has since told Techcrunch that the technology giant has not received a backdoor question, which is the first time that Google has confirmed that it is not subject to a comparable British order.
Earlier this year, the Washington Post reported that the British home office sought a secret judicial order in the UK Supervision Court Requirements that Apple allows British authorities to gain access to the end-to-end-end-encrypted cloud data stored on every customer in the world, including their iPhone and iPad backups. Apple codes the data in such a way that only customers, and not Apple, have access to their data stored on its servers.
According to British legislation, technology companies that are subject to secret surveillance court assignments, such as Apple, are legally excluded from revealing details of an order, or the existence of the order itself, despite Details of the question that leaks publicly earlier this year. Critics called the secret order against Apple ‘Draconian’ and said that it would have worldwide consequences for users’ privacy. Apple has since appealed to the legality of order.
In A new letter Senator Ron Wyden, who was sent to the Senate Committee to the top of the American intelligence officer Tulsi Gabbard, said that although technology companies cannot say whether they have received a British order, at least one technology giant confirmed that it has not received any.
Meta, who uses end-to-end coding to protect user messages that are sent between WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, told the Wyden office on 17 March that the company “did not receive an order to find our coded services, such as it reported on Apple.”
For his part, Google would not tell the Wyden office whether it had received a British government order for access to encrypted data, such as Android -back -ups, “only stated that if it had received a notification of technical possibilities, it would be forbidden to make known fact,” Wyden said.
Google spokesperson Karl Ryan told Techcrunch in a statement: “We have never built a mechanism or ‘back door’ to bypass end-to-end coding in our products. If we say that a product is end-to-end, it is.”
When she was explicitly asked by Techcrunch, Ryan said, “We have not received any notification of technical possibilities,” referring to a British surveillance order.
Wyden’s letter, reported for the first time by The Washington Post And shared with techcrunchGabbard called to make its “assessment of the national security risks of the British surveillance laws and the reported secret requirements of American companies in public.”
This story was updated with extra comments from Google, shared in response to a tech crunch research.
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