“We need to think very hard about what resistance looks like under these
conditions… where government and Big Tech know so much about us, can
track us, can imprison, can destroy us in a variety of ways.”
JC
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Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and
Credit Card Numbers
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/Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn’t know how much information ICE requested
in a subpoena until months later. Google never gave him a chance to
fight it.
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Jessica Washington
February 10 2026, 12:00 p.m.
Google fulfilled an Immigration and Customs Enforcement subpoena that
demanded a wide array of personal data on a student activist and
journalist, including his credit card and bank account numbers,
according to a copy of an ICE subpoena obtained by The Intercept.
Amandla Thomas-Johnson
<https://theintercept.com/2025/09/16/google-facebook-subpoena-ice-students-gaza/>
had attended a protest targeting companies that supplied weapons to
Israel at a Cornell University job fair in 2024 for all of five minutes,
but the action got him banned from campus. When President Donald Trump
assumed office and issued a series of executive orders targeting
students who protested in support of Palestinians, Thomas-Johnson and
his friend Momodou Taal went into hiding.
Google informed Thomas-Johnson via a brief email in April that it had
already shared his metadata with the Department of Homeland Security, as
The Intercept previously reported
<https://theintercept.com/2025/09/16/google-facebook-subpoena-ice-students-gaza/>.
But the full extent of the information the agency sought — including
usernames, addresses, itemized list of services, including any IP
masking services, telephone or instrument numbers, subscriber numbers or
identities, and credit card and bank account numbers — was not
previously known.
continua qui:
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/google-ice-subpoena-student-journalist/
