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Google won’t say if UK secretly demanded a backdoor for user data
Google said it has "never built a backdoor" for its services, but would not explicitly say if the company had received a secret U.K. surveillance order demanding access.
Earlier this year, The Washington Post reported that the U.K. Home Office sought a secret court order in the U.K.’s surveillance court demanding that Apple allows U.K. authorities to access the end-to-end encrypted cloud data stored on any customer in the world, including their iPhone and iPad backups. In a new letter sent to top U.S. intelligence official Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday, Sen. Ron Wyden, who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that while tech companies cannot say whether they have received a U.K. order, at least one technology giant has confirmed that it hasn’t received one. Google spokesperson Karl Ryan told TechCrunch in a statement: “We have never built any mechanism or ‘backdoor’ to circumvent end-to-end encryption in our products.
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