Should Government Have a Key to Encrypted Data?br Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates - SFJazz Centerbr Do you have a secret that no one else knows? What about Apple, Google, Facebook, Verizon, or Uber? Are you sure they don't know your secret? Digital data - emails, text messages, phone records, location records, web searches - contain traces of almost every secret. They also contain traces of almost every crime. Tech companies may promise to protect our data from prying eyes.