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 requesti…
Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.
In 2024-2025, Google complied with an ICE administrative subpoena to hand over user data from a Ph.D. student's Google account after they attended a pro-Palestinian protest, breaking their previous promise of data protection. This incident affects Google users, particularly those with sensitive political or immigration-related activities, and highlights the risks of data exposure to law enforcement without explicit user consent or transparency.