Re: Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.
chose <chose@INVALID_.gov> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:00:13 -0400
| Newsgroups | alt.activism,alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.internet.services.google |
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| Organization | unorganized.org |
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On 4/16/26 5:08 AM, Activist Whining wrote: > In September 2024, Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying > in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian > protest. In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent > Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data. The next month, > Google gave Thomas-Johnson's information to ICE without giving him the > chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise > to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement. > > Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation sent complaints to the > California and New York Attorneys General asking them to investigate > Google for deceptive trade practices for breaking that promise. You can > read about the complaints here. Below is Thomas-Johnson's account of his > ordeal. > > Out of touch but not out of reach > I thought my ordeal with U.S. immigration authorities was over a year > ago, when I left the country, crossing into Canada at Niagara Falls. > > By that point, the Trump administration had effectively turned federal > power against international students like me. After I attended a > pro-Palestine protest at Cornell University—for all of five minutes—the > administration’s rhetoric about cracking down on students protesting > what we saw as genocide forced me into hiding for three months. Federal > agents came to my home looking for me. A friend was detained at an > airport in Tampa and interrogated about my whereabouts. > > I’m currently a Ph.D. student. Before that, I was a reporter. I’m a dual > British and Trinadad and Tobago citizen. I have not been accused of any > crime. > > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-broke-its-promise-me-now-ice > -has-my-data > > Lifetime ban, never allowed in again. Demographic dilution (with almost all immigration being from 3rd world countries) is guaranteed to increase the pro-palestinian voter count, THAT's why ICE exists.