"The Home Office has previously said the UK has “robust safeguards and independent oversight to protect privacy” and that these powers “are only used on an exceptional basis, in relation to the most serious crimes.”" (from the commentet article)
Yes for sure. Therefore the UK banned E2EE cloud backups for apple. Very bad threatactors seem to work in the UK government. Maby they are just not informed enough or intentially bad. Both has the same result I fear.