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DHS Orders Tech Giants to Unmask Anti-ICE Accounts (www.thedailybeast.com)
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The Department of Homeland Security is pushing Silicon Valley to strip anonymity from Americans who track or criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The agency has fired off hundreds of subpoenas demanding names, email addresses, and phone numbers tied to anti-ICE social media accounts, the New York Times reported Friday.

Unlike traditional warrants, administrative subpoenas do not require approval from a judge before they are issued. Instead of seeking court authorization first, DHS can sign and send the demands directly to tech companies—a power civil liberties advocates say is now being deployed far more aggressively.

Google, Meta, Reddit, and Discord received subpoenas targeting anonymous accounts that posted about ICE activity, the Times reported.

Archive report: https://archive.is/QW78b#selection-723.0-731.17

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[–] Attacker94@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You've got to love the patriot act

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The Patriot Act was sunset years ago

[–] Attacker94@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

From preliminary checking I would have to agree with you, but the only sources I could find said that the clauses that were explicitly sun set clauses have since lapsed, I see no mention of what clauses still remain, does anyone have a source for the original text?