{"id":951131,"date":"2025-07-30T11:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951131"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:03:20","slug":"us-senators-letter-suggests-apple-may-not-be-the-only-tech-company-fighting-uks-backdoor-entry-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/30\/us-senators-letter-suggests-apple-may-not-be-the-only-tech-company-fighting-uks-backdoor-entry-request\/","title":{"rendered":"US senator\u2019s letter suggests Apple may not be the only tech company fighting UK\u2019s \u2018backdoor\u2019 entry request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Ron Wyden has formally requested Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, to initiate an investigation into the UK\u2019s alleged digital spying practices, raising alarms that British surveillance laws may be compromising the private data of millions of Americans. In a letter, Wyden suggested that Google, alongside Apple, may have been secretly pressured to allow \u2018backdoor\u2019 access to user data. The senator&#8217;s concern stems from Google&#8217;s refusal to clarify if it has received such a demand, stating only that it would be prohibited from disclosing such a request if one existed.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the letter, The Washington Post said Google told the Senator&#8217;s office it could not confirm or deny whether the British government had demanded \u201cbackdoor\u201d access to private user data on its services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Ron Wyden has formally requested Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, to initiate an investigation into the UK\u2019s alleged digital spying practices, raising alarms that British surveillance laws may be compromising the private data of millions of Americans. In a letter, Wyden suggested that Google, alongside Apple, may have been secretly pressured to allow \u2018backdoor\u2019 access to user data. The senator&#8217;s concern stems from Google&#8217;s refusal to clarify if it has received such a demand, stating only that it would be prohibited from disclosing such a request if one existed. Citing the letter, The Washington Post said Google told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}