{"id":682193,"date":"2025-07-30T08:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/google-says-uk-government-has-not-demanded-an-encryption-backdoor-for-its-users-data\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T08:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:50:16","slug":"google-says-uk-government-has-not-demanded-an-encryption-backdoor-for-its-users-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/google-says-uk-government-has-not-demanded-an-encryption-backdoor-for-its-users-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Google says UK government has not demanded an encryption backdoor for its users’ data"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.K. government is reportedly backing down<\/a> from its earlier demand that App<\/a>le build a secret backdoor allowing its authorities access to customer data worldwide, following a harsh rebuke from the U.S. government. But one U.S. senator wants to know if other tech giants, like Google, have also received secret backdoor demands from the U.K. government.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Google refused to answer the lawmaker\u2019s questions but has since told TechCrunch that the technology<\/a> giant has not received a backdoor demand, marking the first time that Google has confirmed it is not subject to a similar U.K. order.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, The Washington Post reported that the U.K. Home Office sought a secret court order in the U.K.\u2019s surveillance court<\/a> demanding that Apple allow 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. Apple encrypts the data in such a way that only customers, and not Apple, can access their data stored on its servers.<\/p>\n

Under U.K. law, tech companies subject to secret surveillance court orders, such as Apple, are legally barred from revealing details of an order, or the existence of the order itself, despite details of the demand publicly leaking earlier this year<\/a>. Critics called the secret order against Apple \u201cdraconian,\u201d saying it would have global ramifications for users\u2019 privacy. Apple has since appealed the legality of the order.<\/p>\n

In a new letter<\/a> 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\u2019t received one.<\/p>\n

Meta, which uses end-to-end encryption to protect user messages sent between WhatsApp<\/a> and Facebook Messenger, told Wyden\u2019s office on March 17 that the company has \u201cnot received an order to backdoor our encrypted services, like that reported about Apple.\u201d<\/p>\n

Google, for its part, would not tell Wyden\u2019s office if it had received a U.K. government order for accessing encrypted data, such as Android backups, \u201conly stating that if it had received a technical capabilities notice, it would be prohibited from disclosing that fact,\u201d said Wyden.<\/p>\n

Google spokesperson Karl Ryan told TechCrunch in a statement: \u201cWe have never built any mechanism or \u2018backdoor\u2019 to circumvent end-to-end encryption in our products. If we say a product is end-to-end encrypted, it is.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

When explicitly asked by TechCrunch, Ryan said: \u201cWe haven\u2019t received a technical capabilities notice,\u201d referring to any U.K. surveillance order.<\/p>\n

Wyden\u2019s letter, first reported by The Washington Post<\/a> and shared with TechCrunch<\/a>, called on Gabbard to make public its \u201cassessment of the national security risks posed by the U.K.\u2019s surveillance laws and its reported secret demands of U.S. companies.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story was updated with additional comment from Google, shared in response to a TechCrunch inquiry.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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