Google Handed ICE Student Journalist's Bank and Credit Card Numbers
5 hours ago
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- Google shared extensive personal data of student activist Amandla Thomas-Johnson with ICE, including financial details, without prior notice.
- ICE's subpoena lacked justification and included a request for indefinite secrecy regarding the summons.
- Thomas-Johnson, now in Senegal, believes ICE aimed to track and detain him due to his activism.
- EFF and ACLU urge tech companies to resist unjust subpoenas and provide users notice to challenge them.
- Legal experts criticize Google for not allowing Thomas-Johnson to contest the data disclosure, violating privacy rights.
- Federal laws like the Stored Communications Act govern tech companies' data sharing but lack stringent user protections.
- Google's privacy policy claims pushback on overly broad requests, yet compliance with government demands has spiked.
- Calls for legal reforms to enhance data privacy protections and regulate tech-government data sharing.
- The article highlights broader concerns over Trump administration's authoritarian tactics and attacks on press freedom.
- The Intercept appeals for support to combat corporate media's complicity and defend democratic values.