WYDEN AND DAVIDSON TO UK SPY COURT: LET APPLE TELL CONGRESS ABOUT REPORTED UK SECRET DEMAND FOR ENCRYPTION BACKDOOR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. Ron Wyden issued the following press release:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, urged a U.K. court to lift the secrecy around a reported order from the U.K. government that Apple create a secret backdoor in its products to allow surveillance.

Wyden and Davidson urged the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which oversees government surveillance in the UK, to allow more transparency in the matter, in a letter sent today.

"The U.K. government's unprecedented demands for secrecy in this matter undermine democratic governance in both the United States and the U.K., and needlessly strain the relationship between our two nations," Wyden and Davidson wrote.

In their let...