Vance negotiates the agreement protecting the Apple data from British stolen door requests

Vice -President JD Vance – who has eviscerated European leaders earlier this year for having allegedly withdrawn freedom of expression, essentially threatening fundamental democratic values – recently played a dominant role in convincing it of the United Kingdom to delete its requests that Apple provides the British government with a “back door” to the personal data of users, Fox News Digital learned.

An American official told Fox News Digital that Vance “was in charge and was personally involved in the negotiation of an agreement, in particular having direct conversations with the British government”.

By working with British partners, the vice-president “has negotiated a mutually beneficial understanding” that the British government “will withdraw the current stolen door to Apple,” said the American official, adding that “the agreement between our two governments maintains the sovereignty of each country while ensuring close cooperation on data sharing”.

The Bipartite letter warns Gabbard New Uk Order for Apple Porte Stepped could compromise the Americans

Vice-president JD Vance, Center, behind French President Emmanuel Macron and President Donald Trump during a multilateral meeting with European leaders in the East House of White House on Monday, August 18, 2025. (Aaron Schwartz / CNP / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The American official also told Fox News Digital that the vice-president “was strongly interested in this issue because of his history in technology, his concern for privacy and his (sincere) commitment to maintain a strong American-UK relationship.”

The Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, said on Monday in an X post that she, alongside President Donald Trump and Vance, worked “in close collaboration with our partners in the United Kingdom” in recent months “to ensure that the private data of the Americans remain private and our constitutional rights and our civil freedoms are protected”.

“Consequently, the United Kingdom has agreed to remove its mandate for Apple to provide a” back door “that would have enabled access to the encrypted data protected from American citizens and empiety on our civil freedoms,” wrote Gabbard.

Fox News Digital contacted Apple and the British Home Office to comment but did not immediately hear.

In February, Senator Ron Wyden, D-ear., And representative Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., Wrote a letter to the DNI confirmed by the new, informing Gabbard recent press reports that the Natal Secretary of the United Kingdom “served to Apple with a secret order” at the beginning of the year “.

The directive would have forced Apple to weaken the encryption of its iCloud safeguard service, giving the British government the “general capacity” to access customer’s encrypted files. The reports also indicated that the order had been made under the 2016 law of the United Kingdom in investigation, commonly called “Snoopers Charter”, which does not require the approval of a judge, according to the letter previously obtained by Fox News Digital.

Wyden, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Biggs, who chairs a judicial subcommittee of the Chamber on crime and monitoring of the federal government, informed Gabbard that Apple “would have obtained to recognize that it has even received such an order, and the company would face the criminal penalties which would prevent it from confirming even the American dismissal, and the company of these press reports”. The letter focused on the threat of China, Russia and other opponents hoping for the Americans.

At the Munich security conference in February in February, Vance said that the threat that was most concerned about Europe was not China, Russia or “any other external actor”, but rather “the threat of Europe’s retirement of some of its most fundamental values, the values shared with the United States of America”. Vance specifically cited the case of Adam Smith-Connor, a veteran and physiotherapist of the British army, which was prosecuted under the laws of the “buffer zone” or the “safe access zone” of the United Kingdom around the abortion clinics. British police faced him for praying silently outside the clinic.

The vice-president also called Europe more broadly to stifle the opposition discourse.

US vice-president JD Vance during a visit to RAF FAIRFORD, which welcomed the American Air Force units, in Fairford, in the United Kingdom, Wednesday, August 13, 2025. (Jason Alden / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

DNC tears JD Vance for fishing with the British Minister of Foreign Affairs in the last bizarre attack; Republicans retaliated

“For many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like ancient and rooted interests hiding behind ugly words from the Soviet era such as disinformation and disinformation, which simply does not like someone with an alternative point of view could express a different opinion or, God is prohibited, voting a different way, or worse,” the time.

More recently, Vance made a diplomatic visit to the United Kingdom at the beginning of the month, meeting the British Foreign Minister for interviews focused on Ukrainian-Russia and Israel-Hamas wars.

Last week, the State Department, on the other hand, published its annual country report of 2024 on “human rights practices”. In the UK report, the Trump administration cited “credible relationships of serious restrictions on freedom of expression”, including “the application or threat of criminal or civil laws in order to limit expression; and crimes, violence or threats of violence motivated by anti-Semitism.”

The State Department said that the British government “had sometimes taken credible measures to identify and punish civil servants who committed human rights violations, but the prosecution and the sanction for such abuses were incoherent”.

The report indicates that the British authorities, including the British communications office (OFCOM), are legally authorized to monitor all forms of communication for the word they deemed “illegal”. The UK Online Safety Act of 2023, which entered into force in 2024, “defined the category of” online damage “and expanded expanded the OFCOM authority to include American media and technological companies with a large number of British users, which they have a business presence in the United Kingdom”, according to the State Department. Under the law, according to the report, companies were “Risk assessment of illegal content” proactive to mitigate the risk that users meet the discourse deemed illegal by OFCOM.

“Experts have warned that a bill effect could be government regulations to reduce or eliminate effective encryption (and therefore the confidentiality of users) on platforms,” said the report.

Demonstrators are detained in Nottingham, in the center of England, on August 3, 2024 during the “sufficient” demonstration in reaction to the fatal stabs of three young girls during a dance event on the theme of Taylor Swift in Southport on July 29. (Darren Staples / AFP via Getty Images)

The United Kingdom has more and more repressed the comments of British citizens for the opposition, in particular online publications and the memes opposing mass migration. In August 2024, when the riots broke out in the United Kingdom after a mass stab at a dance event on the theme of Taylor Swift left three dead girls and other injured, the chief of the Metropolitan Police of London warned that civil servants could also extradite and imprison American citizens for online publications.

In its report, the State Department noted that the representatives of the local and national government following the Southport attack, “intervened on several occasions to relax the discourse as to the identity and the grounds of the attacker”, which was then identified as Axel Rudakubana, a British citizen of Rwanda origin. The British government “called on businesses, including American companies, to censor the discourse considered to be a disinformation or a” hate speech “,” according to the State Department, which also noted that the director of public prosecution, Stephen Parkinson, threatened to continue and to seek the extradition of those who “republish, repeat or amplify a false, threatening or moving message.”

The report noted that many people had been arrested for online speech on the attack and his motivations, although, in some cases, accusations have been abandoned.

Click here to obtain the Fox News app

“Many non -governmental organizations (NGOs) and media have criticized the government’s approach to censor discourse, both in principle and in the perceived armament of the police against political opinions disadvantaged by the authorities.”