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Re: Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.

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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.

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