JD Vance 'directly' convinced UK to drop Apple backdoor data demand, protecting Americans' rights: US official
2025-08-20 12:10:08
Vice President JD Vance – Those who employed European leaders earlier this year because of his retreat from freedom of expression, and mainly threatening basic democratic values – recently played a leadership role in persuading the United Kingdom to drop its demands that Apple provides the British government with the “back door” of user personal data, and has learned Fox News Digital.
An American official told Fox News Digital that Vans “was responsible and personally participated in negotiating a deal, including direct talks with the British government.”
By working with UK partners, the Vice President “negotiated a useful understanding of the two parties” that the British government “will withdraw the current background to Apple, adding that” the agreement between our government preserves the sovereignty of each country while ensuring close cooperation in data sharing. ”
The US official also told the Fox News Digital that the Vice President “raised strong interest in this issue because of his technology background, his interest in privacy, [sincere] Commitment to maintain a strong relationship with the United States of America. ”
The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tolsi Gabbard said in the X publication on Monday that she was, along with her President Donald Trump Fase, it has been working “closely with our partners in the United Kingdom” during the past few months “to ensure that Americans’ data remains in particular and our constitutional rights and civil freedoms are protected.”
“As a result, the UK agreed to drop its mandate to Apple to provide” backbone “that would enable access to the encrypted data protected by American citizens and infringe on our civil freedoms,” Gabbard wrote.
Fox News Digital communicated with Apple and British home office for comment, but it did not hear immediately.
In February, Senator Ron Widen, D-Ur, and MP Andy Begz, R. Aric, formulated a message to DNI, who reported Gabbard about recent press reports that the Minister of the Interior “served” facing Apple facing a company “at the beginning of the year,” directing the company to its weak security to serve iCloud to prevent it to face in a government. “
According to the Apple direction required to weaken the ICLOD backup service, giving the British government the “comprehensive ability” to access the encrypted files to customers. Reports also stated that the matter was issued under the UK Investigation Law for the year 2016, known as the “Snoopers Charter”, which does not require the approval of the judge, according to the message previously obtained by Fox News Digital.
Weiden, who sits in the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Beigz, who heads a sub -committee to spend the House of Representatives in the field of crime and government control, told Gabbard that Apple “is said to have been honored from admitting that it has received such an order, and that the company is facing criminal sanctions that prevent it from even the American conference at the American conference. The message focused on the threat of China, Russia and other opponents who are embodied on Americans.
in Munich Security Conference In February, Verse said, at the same time, that the threat that was more concerned about it when it came to Europe was not China, Russia, or “any other external actor”, but rather “the threat from inside Europe from some of its basic values, its common values with the United States of America.” Vans specifically cited the condition of Adam Smith Connor, a veteran in the British army and physiotherapist, who was tried under the laws of the “buffer zone” in the UK or “safe access zone” about abortion clinics. The British police faced him to pray silently outside the clinic.
He also called on the Vice President of Europe on a broader scale to strangle the opposition speech.
“For many of us on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, it seems more like the established old interests that hide behind words in the ugly Soviet era such as wrong and misinformation, which does not like the idea that someone has an alternative view that may express a different opinion or, God forbid, voting in a different way, or worse, win an election,”
Recently, Vans made a diplomatic visit to the United Kingdom earlier this month, where he met with the British Foreign Minister of talks that focus on the wars of Ukraine, Russia and Israel Hamas.
Last week, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Meanwhile, it issued its annual report for 2024 on “human rights practices”. In the UK report, the Trump administration cited “reliable reports of serious restrictions on freedom of expression”, including “enforcement or threat of criminal or civil laws to reduce expression, crimes, violence, or threats of violence motivated by anti -heavenly.”
The Foreign Ministry confirmed that the British government “sometimes took reliable steps to determine and punish officials who committed human rights violations, but the prosecution and punishment for these violations were inconsistent.”
The report said British authorities, Including the UK Communications Office (Offes), a law commissioner to monitor all forms of communication for the speech they considered “illegal”. The online safety law in the United Kingdom for the year 2023, which came into effect in 2024, set the “category” online damage and the Offic Authority explicitly to include American media and technology companies with a large number of British users, regardless of whether they have the presence of companies in the United Kingdom, “according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Under the law, the report said that companies participating in “illegal content risk assessment” had to reduce the risk of confronting users who consider them illegal speech by Offcom.
The report said: “Experts warned that one of the effects on the draft law could be a governmental organization to reduce or cancel effective encryption (and thus the privacy of the user) on the platforms.”
The United Kingdom increases British citizens to suspend the opposition, especially online jobs and themes that oppose group migration. In August 2024, with riots in the UK after a mass stabbed at a dance event under the title Taylor Swift, three other girls left and wounded, the Capital Police Commander in London warned that officials could also hand over American citizens and imprison them on the Internet about turmoil.
In its report, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that local and national government officials, in the wake of the Southport attack, “intervened and repeatedly in the identity speech and motives of the attacker”, who was later identified as Aksas Rodakobana, a British citizen of Rwandan origin. The British government “called on companies, including American companies, to monitor a speech that is wrong information or” hate speech “, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which also indicated that the Director of Public Prosecution Stephen Parkinson threatened to prosecute the judiciary and search for the delivery of those who were” delivered, repeated or exaggerated the wrong message, threatening, or racist/religious threat. ”
The report indicated that many individuals have been arrested for their online speech on the attack and its motives, despite the decrease in charges in some cases.
“Many NGOs (NGOs) criticized the media to follow the government’s approach to observing speech, in principle and in the weapons that are enforced to enforce the law against political opinions that the authorities do not distort.”
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