{"id":1046251,"date":"2026-10-31T11:32:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046251"},"modified":"2026-10-31T11:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:02:41","slug":"google-meta-and-other-tech-companies-resist-ice-demands-for-user-data-amid-us-government-immigration-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/31\/google-meta-and-other-tech-companies-resist-ice-demands-for-user-data-amid-us-government-immigration-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Meta and other tech companies resist ICE demands for user data amid US government immigration crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants, including Google and Meta, are reportedly resisting the Trump administration as federal immigration authorities escalate their use of subpoenas to track down online critics. Silicon Valley companies are delaying responses, challenging broad government requests and expanding notification policies for their users, as per a report by The Wall Street Journal. The pushback comes as tech executives brace for potential congressional investigations led by Democrats following upcoming midterm elections, while balancing privacy concerns from their own workforces and navigating relations with the current administration. Lawmakers are already pressing these companies to explain why sensitive customer details have been turned over to federal authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants, including Google and Meta, are reportedly resisting the Trump administration as federal immigration authorities escalate their use of subpoenas to track down online critics. Silicon Valley companies are delaying responses, challenging broad government requests and expanding notification policies for their users, as per a report by The Wall Street Journal. The pushback comes as tech executives brace for potential congressional investigations led by Democrats following upcoming midterm elections, while balancing privacy concerns from their own workforces and navigating relations with the current administration. Lawmakers are already pressing these companies to explain why sensitive customer details have been turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046252,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046251\/revisions\/1046252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}