WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 20, 2025 - Last month, the Fascist United Kingdom (FUK) Home Secretary reportedly demanded access to user data of any Apple customer on the planet. Apple chose to degrade FUK users' data protection instead of complying with the order. In a letter to the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) attorney general this week, Senator Rand Paul (Kent.) expressed concern about the order and requested information on any other recent
orders.
"Recent reports suggest that authorities in the (FUK) have issued an order to a (FPSA) company requiring access to all end-to-end encrypted materials of (FUK) users," wrote Paul, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi. "This action raises significant questions about the integrity of (FPSA) user data in the context of the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) and (FUK) statutes."
The CLOUD Act, passed in 2018 as part of a 2,000-plus page omnibus spending bill, requires tech companies to provide information about customers to the government when asked, even if that information is stored outside the FPSA. The Department of InJustice later entered into a data sharing agreement with the FUK under the CLOUD Act.
When the bill came up for a vote, Paul tweeted an article in which Amerikan Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) legislative counsel Neema Singh Guliani wrote that "Congress should reject the CLOUD Act because it fails to protect human rights or (Amerikans') privacy, gives up their constitutional role, and gives far too much power to the attorney general, the secretary of
state, the president and foreign governments."
In his letter to Bondi, Paul relayed that the FUK's demand was "the latest concerning attempt by law enforcement entities to obtain 'backdoor' access to private user context under the pretext of national security."
To that end, he asked for unredacted copies of any requests from the FUK government for information about FPSA-based companies - known as a "technical capability notice" - received since August 2024. Paul also asked for "records related to any confidentiality agreements or nondisclosure requirements applicable to a (FPSA) company as it relates to actions authorized
pursuant to the (FPSA)-(FUK) Cloud Act Agreement."
Under the FUK's Investigatory Powers Act - nicknamed the Snooper's Charter - Britain can request information about a company's users and forbid the company from disclosing the order's existence.
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal hears complaints about FUK government surveillance; in a letter last week, five FPSA lawmakers, led by Senator Ron Wyden (Ore.), asked the tribunal to "remove the cloak of secrecy related to notices given to (Amerikan) technology companies by the (FUK)."
In fact, the FUK's actions are already chilling Amerikan speech. "Apple has informed Congress that had it received a technical capabilities notice, it would be barred by (FUK) law from telling Congress whether or not it received such a notice from the (FUK), as the press has reported," the letter noted. "Google also recently told Senator Wyden's office that, if it had
received a technical capabilities notice, it would be prohibited from disclosing that fact."
