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 (DIR) Post #B5I343KWMd4TbBwFgO by eff@mastodon.social
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       Today, EFF sent complaints to the attorneys general of California and New York urging them to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices over Google's broken promises to users targeted by the government 🧵(1/4) https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-state-ags-investigate-googles-broken-promise-users-targeted-government
       
 (DIR) Post #B5I343YhVuPiJAZZmi by eff@mastodon.social
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       For nearly a decade, Google has promised to tell users before giving their data to law enforcement. Many times, it has. But through a hidden practice, Google has likely systematically broken that promise numerous times, as it did to Amandla Thomas-Johnson. (2/4)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5I343oeYbAr6e2JeK by eff@mastodon.social
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       Last year, Google handed Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the government's invalid subpoena, breaking a long-standing promise to users (3/4) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-broke-its-promise-me-now-ice-has-my-data
       
 (DIR) Post #B5I3446NUhLtzcKTHE by eff@mastodon.social
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       "Google should answer the question: How many other times has it broken its promise to users?” said EFF Senior Staff Attorney F. Mario Trujillo. "Advance notice is especially important now, when agencies like ICE are unconstitutionally targeting users for First Amendment-protected activity." (4/4)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5I3hgV6f6ReNWmtnc by DonChacale@mastodon.social
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       @eff
       
 (DIR) Post #B5IAtOKyiZyzCSa0Zc by tom16@mastodon.social
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       @eff Google is evil
       
 (DIR) Post #B5INlvuxHZ8sR1BJiq by Npars01@mstdn.social
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       @eff They should also be considering lawsuits against the petrostate despots in alliance with Google, SpaceX, Oracle, Apple, Palantir, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, etchttps://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7https://www.newsweek.com/from-pariah-to-partner-mbs-returns-to-washington-opinion-11044445https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/25/elon-musk-has-been-in-regular-contact-with-putin-for-two-years-say-reportshttps://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-keep-citizens-on-their-best-behavior-2024-9https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tourhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-academic-trawling-facebook-had-links-to-russian-universityhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/03/21/andrei-masalovich-avalanche-russia-cambridge-analytica/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-electionhttps://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/05/saudi-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-invests-elon-musks-24b-ai-startuphttps://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligencer-trump-mbs-meeting-brings-ai-money-2025-11-20/https://www.axios.com/2017/12/14/koch-tries-its-hand-at-venture-capital-1513277500