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So I am getting the distinct feeling that Google (in addition to Apple) got a Technical Capability Notice from the U.K.
Senator Wyden asked both companies to confirm or deny that they’d received TCNs. Both parties said, essentially, “if we got one we wouldn’t be allowed to tell you under U.K. law.” https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/bipartisan-members-of-congress-to-uk-spy-court-uk-gag-orders-for-surveillance-backdoors-threaten-americans-security-and-privacy-impede-congressional-oversight
Money quote(s) from the article. Note that there is no “you can’t deny” clause in the U.K. law.
@matthew_d_green So does a statement of the form "we're barred from confirming or denying" amount to confirming? Since, otherwise, they'd be allowed to truthfully deny.
Or does it just mean they're assholes who don't want to tell us the bad things they're voluntarily doing and want to pretend it's some bad government making them do it?