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submitted 6 months ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don't come from judges.

Reddit, Meta, and Google voluntarily “complied with some of the requests” for identifying details of users critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent as part of a recent wave of administrative subpoenas the Department of Homeland Security has been distributing to Big Tech the past few months, according to an anonymously sourced New York Times report.

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[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 67 points 6 months ago

Reddit, Meta, and Google are scumbags and not to be trusted.

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 35 points 6 months ago

Pretty much applies to any even vaguely large company.

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 months ago
[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 10 points 6 months ago

All US tech should be questioned.

These are the companies sharing information that we KNOW of.

[-] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

This is the definition of economic fascism. They aren't being squeezed by the government, they have lucrative contacts for openly sharing this info. The businesses and the us government are becoming one.

[-] sp3ctre@feddit.org 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Every US based company is pretty much legally obliged to hand over everything, even if they collect data outside of US.

This is nothing new. New is, that this data is now getting abused at large scale.

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 19 points 6 months ago

Absolutely.

EVERY. U.S. COMPANY.

It used to be that courts would slow it down. But the Trump administration is showing that they don't care about the law. How they have been weaponizing ICE, it's pretty clear cut that they will use or abuse any tool to get their way.

Discord is just a start.

All the companies relying on Amazon and AWS will be compromised too. Which includes all the open-source software storing their backups on S3.

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

[-] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 13 points 6 months ago

All those who are surprised, raise your hands.

*crickets*

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

I’m definitely on that list

[-] tiny_hedgehog@piefed.social 5 points 6 months ago
[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There must be so many people on it. If we all keep speaking our minds about ICE and their fascist leaders maybe we can keep bloating out that list.

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 5 points 6 months ago

I got permenantly reddit banned for "inciting violence" because of anti Ice comments.

I am pretty sure I am on that list.pS, fuck Ice, fuck Trumo, fuck the Nazi GOP.

[-] SimpleMath@piefed.ca 2 points 5 months ago

I was banned permanently for telling a story from when I was a child and I fought back against a bully. That was in their eyes advocating violence.

[-] Bazell@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

Well, if you are against ICE and not in the USA, you are not loosing anything for being in the list.

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

I am unfortunately in the USA.

[-] Bazell@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago

Good luck in life. And shall God protect you.

[-] tiny_hedgehog@piefed.social 6 points 6 months ago

This article is what made me finally delete my Google account. Was a mission migrating all my other accounts that I’d used the gmail address for, but worth it.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

GRAFAM users: well, I'm not concerned, so it's alright 🤷

Or alternatively "But where else can I go???😭"

[-] tiny_hedgehog@piefed.social 3 points 6 months ago
[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Google Reddit Amazon Facebook Apple Microsoft I just added the R to GAFAM which is the more common acronym.

[-] tiny_hedgehog@piefed.social 3 points 6 months ago

#TIL. Thanks.

[-] Bazell@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago
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