News Summary

• The U.K. government is reportedly backing down from its demand that Apple build a secret backdoor allowing its authorities access to customer data.
• But one U.S. senator wants to know if other tech giants, like Google, have also received secret backdoor demands.
• Google refused to answer the lawmaker’s questions but has since told TechCrunch that the technology giant has not received a backdoor demand.
• Apple encrypts the data in such a way that only customers, and not Apple, can access their data stored on its servers.