US national security director condemns UK request for Apple data ‘backdoor’

Tulsi Gabbard said request was clear and egregious violation of Americans' privacy and civil liberties'

The new US director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, weighed in on the encryption feud between Apple and the UK on Wednesday. In a letter to British lawmakers on Wednesday, she wrote that the UK government's order for Apple to create a backdoor" to iCloud users' accounts is a clear and egregious violation of Americans' privacy and civil liberties".

Any information sharing between a government - any government - and private companies must be done in a manner that respects and protects the U.S. law and the Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens," Gabbard wrote.