I'm not sure it's all that misleading, what I got out of the article was that there was apparently an explicit law (Wilson doctrine) in the UK designed to preve

I'm not sure it's all that misleading, what I got out of the article was that there was apparently an explicit law (Wilson doctrine) in the UK designed to prevent spy agencies from spying on political officials. But now that they have begun using cloud services, etc, the doctrine has been quietly rendered irrelevant because of routing technicalities.