They don't need to ask for any backdoor, there are existing solutions already like Pegasus. It was recently used by Polish government ruling party to spy on opposition under the pretense of looking for 'Russian spies'. Considering our not-very-smart government managed to get it, I can bet people who are actually qualified can do much more already.
Well those are the ones we hear about. I think there's a lot of state-level spying in many software and hardware devices, but of course we don't hear about it
