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#subpoenas — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. A List of #ICE #Subpoenas to Tech Companies

    #Immigration and #Customs Enforcement (ICE) has conducted unlawful investigations into dozens of individuals who have documented #ICE activities in their communities, #socialmedia users who criticized the government, and international students who attended a #protest.

    A favored tool in these speech chilling investigations are administrative subpoenas sent to technology companies, requesting basic subscriber data about their users. For example, from 2018 to 2020, ICE sent nearly 500 administrative subpoenas to #Meta , #Google , and #Twitter (now X), according to documents obtained by Just Futures Law. In just the second half of 2025, the Department of Homeland #Security (#DHS ) sent 21 administrative subpoenas to #Reddit , according to its #Transparency Report.
    #privacy

    eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/list

  2. Some Tech Companies Have Privately Pushed Back on #ICE #Subpoenas. They Should All Do More.

    In a handful of known cases, large social media companies have privately pushed back against Immigration and #Customs Enforcement (ICE) subpoenas when the agency tried to unmask #anonymous users who tracked #immigration activities or criticized the government.

    As ICE engages in a pattern of illegal and chilling investigations, any resistance is welcome. But #socialmedia companies can do more.

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    ICE has sent hundreds of subpoenas to large technology companies like #Google , #Meta , and #Reddit.

    Publicly challenging these unlawful subpoenas in court has the dual purpose of protecting individual users who may lack the resources or know-how to challenge a #subpoena on their own, while also discouraging ICE from issuing similarly unlawful subpoenas in the future.
    #privacy

    eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/some