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Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers
(theintercept.com)
why we gotta boycot big tech
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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Wow, I now have an answer for people who ask why I don't set up Google pay.
Shame
Do people seriously expect any company to violate a court order?
The most surprising thing about this is they let him know they provided the data. Usually they can't do that if it's pertaining to an active case.
The real problem is the judge that signed the subpoena.
Administrative warrants aren't court orders.
A subpoena is a legal, written order to compel an individual to give testimony on a particular subject at a specific time and place, or to provide documents or other tangible objects.
Subpoenas are court orders. Warrants are used to let law enforcement gather the information themselves, while subpoenas are orders for the person receiving the subpoena to provide the information. But a warrant can definitely be issued if a subpoena is refused.
You're missing his point and I think probably on purpose. A court of law did not issue this. It was administratively issued by ICE. A bureaucrat wrote it. Not judge of the Judiciary branch.
Ah, I see now. It's dumb to even call it a subpoena at that point.
Yeah, but you fell for it, just like Google. So it worked.
Honestly, they should be referred to as Executive Orders, because that's what they are when the president micromanages the executive branch.
I doubt Google's lawyers fell for anything. They don't want to piss off Trump.
They do it specifically to confuse people.