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ACLU
@aclu.org

DHS has been abusing administrative subpoenas to go after people who criticize ICE online. If this happens to your accounts, know your rights.

aclu.orgWhen the Government Demands Info About Your Online AccountsThe First Amendment protects the right to document and criticize government actions, including when doing so anonymously online. But the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ramped up efforts to surveil and silence critics using a tool called an "administrative subpoena" or "administrative summons".

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Jeremy Duffy
@thegeekprofessor.bsky.social

When I worked at the NSA, coworkers would tell me that they had security demand the names and sometimes passwords to accounts they used online. Not knowing our rights is the same as not having them. Being coerced is the same as not having them.