Google says UK government has not demanded an encryption backdoor for its users’ data

According to what was reported, the UK government is back away from its previous request that Apple builds the secret rear door, allowing its powers to access customer data all over the world, after harsh reprimanding from the United States government. But one of the American senator wants to know whether other technology giants, such as Google, have also received a secret demand from the UK government.

Google has refused to answer the legislator’s questions, but she has told Techcrunch since then that the technology giant has not received a back request, which represents the first time that Google has confirmed that it is not subject to a similar thing in the UK.

Earlier this year, the Washington Post newspaper reported that the UK Ministry of Interior requested a secret order in the UK’s monitoring court asking Apple to allow the Apple authorities in the UK to access the data of the coded cloud to one side stored on any client in the world, including its iPhone and iPad. Apple encrypts data in a way that makes customers only, not Apple, can access their data stored on their servers.

Under the UK law, technology companies that are subject to the orders of the Secret Monitoring Court, such as Apple, are prohibited from revealing the details of something, or the same thing, despite the details of the request that is publicly leaking earlier this year. Critics described the secret demand against Apple “Draconian”, saying that it will have global repercussions for the privacy of users. Since then, Apple has resumed the legitimacy of the system.

In a new letter sent to the best US intelligence official in Toulcy Gabbard on Tuesday, Senator Ron Widen, who works for the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that although technology companies could not say whether they had received an order in the United Kingdom, at least one giant confirmed that he had not received one.

Meta, who uses encryption to one side to protect the user messages sent between WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, the Wyden office on March 17 that the company “did not receive a request for our encrypted services, such as those reported about Apple.”

Widan said, for its part, will not tell the Wyden’s office if it had received a government command in the United Kingdom to access encoded data, such as Android backup, “only saying that if he had received a technical notice, he would be prevented from revealing this fact.”

“We have never built any mechanism or” backdooor “to circumvent the encryption from one side to the party in our products. If we say that a product encoded from the end to end, it is,” Google Carl Ryan spokesman told Techcrunch in a statement.

When Techcrunch explicitly asked, Ryan said: “We did not receive a technical notice,” referring to any monitoring order in the United Kingdom.

Widan’s speech, which was first informed by the Washington Post and participated with Techcrunch, Gabbard, called for the announcement of “its assessment of the risks of national security posed by the UK monitoring laws and its secret demands for American companies.”

This story was updated with an additional comment from Google, shared in response to Techcrunch inquiries.