Using a 1930s trade law, Homeland Security targeted the man—who hasn’t entered the US in more than a decade—following posts on X condemning the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
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The original was posted on /r/linustechtips by /u/kaclk on 2026-05-05 22:39:11+00:00.

“The Department of Homeland Security tried to obtain a Canadian man’s location information, activity logs, and other identifying information from Google after he criticized the Trump administration online”.

Serious lines are being crossed by the US government and they’re using American tech companies to do it. Major privacy implications to this.

This is once again an administrative subpoena (aka not reviewed by a judge), similar to the last time the US Government tired to get Google to give information on someone.