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.
I mean, can’t say I’m surprised the infrastructure wholly owned by capital is a mass surveillance network for….capital. Can’t really blame anyone else besides myself for not covering my bases