Privacy advocates want Google to stop handing consumer data over to ICE

April 14, 2026 Gaby Del Valle

Gmail logo on a graphic red background.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking the attorneys general of California and New York to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices, saying the tech giant fails to notify users before handing over their data to law enforcement agencies like ICE.

"For nearly a decade, Google has promised billions of users that it will notify them before disclosing their personal data to law enforcement," the letter says. But it didn't in the case of Amandla Thomas-Johnson, a former PhD candidate at Cornell University who says he received no notice that ICE had accessed his university email.

The EFF alleges that this isn't an isolated inc …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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