US EditionDHS Sends Hundreds of Subpoenas to Social Media Firms for Data on Anonymous ICE Critics: NYT
DHS issued hundreds of subpoenas to identify anonymous social media users criticizing ICE or posting agent locations, with many requests withdrawn before judicial review.
- On Friday, The New York Times reported that the Department of Homeland Security is expanding efforts to identify Americans opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending legal requests to Google, Meta, Reddit, and Discord for account data.
- DHS officials say they are using administrative subpoenas to investigate threats to ICE agents and cited their `broad administrative subpoena authority`, ramping up use last year to identify anonymous social media accounts.
- Tech company review processes and user notifications say Google, Meta, Reddit, and Discord review subpoenas in recent months, sometimes comply, and inform users unless legally barred.
- In court filings, civil‑liberties lawyers said many subpoenas were withdrawn before a judge could rule, leaving targeted users with 10 to 14 days to challenge, and the A.C.L.U. has filed motions to quash requests.
- The trend accelerated after the department ramped up subpoenas last year, including a Sept. 11 Meta request, while Tom Homan, White House border czar, urged to `create a database`.
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DHS Targets Anti-ICE Accounts with Subpoenas to Tech Giants
The US Department of Homeland Security is compelling major technology firms to comply with subpoenas aimed at exposing individuals behind anti-ICE social media accounts, a move that civil liberties advocates warn threatens fundamental free speech protections. The subpoenas demand that companies provide names, email addresses, and phone numbers linked to accounts critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.Unlike standard warrants,…
Tech giants like Google and Meta are being asked to provide data on people who have criticized immigration enforcement ICE on social media, the New York Times reports. Donald Trump's "border czar" Tom Homan will push to build a database of protesters' names.
The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) by sending technology companies legal applications to obtain names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other identification data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency. In recent months, Google, Reddit, Discord, and Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, have received hundreds o…
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