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Google Gave a British Student’s Credit Card and Bank Information to ICE (novaramedia.com)

submitted 3 months ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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Google handed a British graduate student’s bank and credit card information over to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after he was targeted by the agency for attending a pro-Palestine protest for just five minutes.

The tech giant fulfilled a subpoena request from ICE for “a wide array of personal data” on Amandla Thomas-Johnson, an activist and journalist who was studying in the US at Cornell University, The Intercept reported.

Thomas-Johnson went into hiding in the college town of Ithaca, upstate New York, in spring last year as Donald Trump’s administration began rounding up foreign students who opposed Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How did Google receive that information to begin with?

[–] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Everybody and their mother has their credit/debit cards on their phone for google/apple pay.

[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago

The word is convenience.

[–] DakRalter@feddit.uk -1 points 3 months ago

Speak for yourself. I disabled google wallet at the start and never put in my bank details.