I do not know if it is true, but almost fun.
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#gmail
HT @bob
#DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old #USCitizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
Hafiz Rashid/ February 3, 2026
"The #Trump administration is targeting #FreeSpeech with a little-known legal tool: #AdministrativeSubpoenas.
"The #WashingtonPost reports that a retired #Philadelphia man, Jon, 67, found himself in the government’s crosshairs after he emailed a lead prosecutor at the Department of Homeland Security, #JosephDernbach, who was handling the deportation case of an #AfghanRefugee, identified as H, asking him to consider that the man’s life was in danger from the #Taliban.
" 'Mr. Dernbach, don’t play Russian roulette with H’s life,' Jon wrote from his #GMail account. 'Err on the side of caution. There’s a reason the US government along with many other governments don’t recognise the Taliban. Apply principles of common sense and decency.'
"Later that day, Jon received an email from #Google notifying him that an administrative subpoena had been sent to them from the Department of Homeland Security 'compelling the release of information related to your Google Account.' Federal agencies can issue such subpoenas without an order from a judge or grand jury, and Google gave Jon, who withheld his last name to protect his family from the government, one week to challenge it.
"Laws are supposed to restrict the use of administrative subpoenas, but DHS has used the tool against dissent protected under the #FirstAmendment to the #Constitution. Jon could not find who in the agency issued the #subpoena, let alone a record of it to show an attorney.
"Days later, DHS agents showed up at Jon’s door. A naturalized U.S. citizen originally from the #UK, Jon was worried about potential violence. The agents showed him a copy of the email and asked to see his side of the story. They didn’t know about the administrative subpoena but said they received orders to interview Jon by #DHS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
"Eventually, the agents agreed that Jon had committed no crimes after he told them he found Dernbach’s email address through a simple Google search. Jon secured pro bono representation by #ACLU attorneys, who argue that the government is violating a statute that limits how administrative subpoenas can be used for '#ImmigrationEnforcement' and that the government targeted Jon for #ProtectedSpeech.
" 'It doesn’t take that much to make people look over their shoulder, to think twice before they speak again,' said Nathan Freed Wessler, one of Jon’s attorneys. 'That’s why these kinds of subpoenas and other actions—the visits—are so pernicious. You don’t have to lock somebody up to make them reticent to make their voice heard. It really doesn’t take much, because the power of the federal government is so overwhelming.'
"Both #Google and #Meta received a record number of subpoenas in the United States during the first half of 2025 as Trump’s second term began, with Google receiving 28,622, a 15 percent increase over the previous six months. Jon was fortunate to have his case picked up by the ACLU and later reported on by a national media outlet. How many others in the U.S. haven’t been so lucky and face legal challenges for exercising their right to free speech?"
Source / listen:
https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-year-old-us-citizen-criticized-email
#USPol #GoogleSucks #BigTech #Fascism #DefundDHS #ThoughtPolice #Orwellian #NineteenEightyFour #Authoritarianism #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
Solved. I think, LOL. #gmail
Google reports customer to police over doctor photos: this is why privacy matters
How to forward emails to a Google Workspace alias to an external email
#How To #Email #GMail #Google #GoogleWorkspace #MailAlias #SystemAdministration
https://gtechbooster.com/how-to-forward-emails-to-a-google-workspace-alias-to-an-external-email/?fsp_sid=831
Warning to Gmail users as scammers exploit Google's email update
Warning to Gmail users as scammers exploit Google's email update
#Google #Gmail
https://opr.news/186a5409260130en_us?link=1&client=ex_global
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Another reason to not use #Google - they'll readily share your data with the government and give you minimal opportunities to respond. It's not worth it.
https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-year-old-us-citizen-criticized-email
De-Googling Your Life - Opt for Privacy
https://whilstoutwalking.ca/2026/02/03/de-googling-your-life-opt-for-privacy/
Je viens de dépanner une personne qui n'arrivait pas à se désabonner d'une liste. Le serveur lui disait que son adresse n'était pas abonnée. Elle utilise une adresse Gmail, et chez Gmail, les points ne sont pas pris en compte, c'est une dinguerie !! 🙃
jeandupont@gmail.com
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jean.dupont@gmail.com
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j.e.a.n.d.u.p.o.n.t@gmail.com,
c'est la même adresse !
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=fr
Beginning in 2024, Google's Gmail stopped allowing their users to receive emails from friends and family at various non-Google servers. This is effectively censorship and an attempt to force everyone to use Gmail or another big tech email account. But it would be better if people would ditch Gmail and use their own email servers, like we do with Mastodon, so that we can set our own rules on whose emails we receive.
@tilvids
The email analogy probably worked better when this video was made. But beginning in 2024, the big players like Google's Gmail, stopped allowing their users to receive emails from friends and family at various non-Google servers.
@dazo@infosec.exchange
#WHATWG standards are dictated by the most used browsers, that are all US controlled anyway. And that's why it's such a monoculture, with #Firefox there only to provide a little #antitrust warranty to #Google: the standard themselves are designed to work as entry barriers to the browser market.
So again, open standards do not provide #DigitalSovereignty by themselves.
Open source and open standards only work in this regards whene there are several independent implementation from each country, so that there is no way to lock-in users, companies and countries' administrarions.
Without existing, multiple alternative, independent and fully interoperable implementations, open standards just reinforce centralization as Google proved when even #Microsoft abandoned their browser engine.
Then sure, #FreeSoftware helps with Digital #Sovereignty, since (and as long) people's #freedom is its primary concern.
But it's important to not conflate individual freedom and autonomy with digital sovereignty!
If all of your country payments are handled by US corporations, you might well use #GNU/#Hurd on your open hardware, but you are not free and your country has no sovereignty.
If all of your health data are stored by US corporations, they might well only use free software on open hardware located in your neighbourhood, but they are alware at a ssh of distance from #NSA, so you are not free and your country has no sovereignty.
What about your judges or your lawmakers exchanging unencrypted emails over #gmail or #outlook365?
Again, they can use opensource only, but you are not free, your country has no sovereignty and your vote is worth nothing.
So sure, after getting rid of US Tech we might even move to a #FOSS only stack EU-wide.
But first and foremost we need to break free from US control and surveillance.
Some opensource projects may help to ackieve this urgent goal.
Biggest ones won't and we shouldn't naively argue that going full opensource is per se useful or required to gain #DigitalSovereignty.
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
If you're concerned about the US controlling open source - you can fork it.This is a naive take: above a certain complexity, hard forks of a software is not licensing issue. So while you can legally fork #Chromium, nobody can really hope of doing so in any meaningful way.
#WHATWG standards are dictated by the most used browsers, that are all US controlled anyway. And that's why it's such a monoculture, with #Firefox there only to provide a little #antitrust warranty to #Google: the standard themselves are designed to work as entry barriers to the browser market.
So again, open standards do not provide #DigitalSovereignty by themselves.
Open source and open standards only work in this regards whene there are several independent implementation from each country, so that there is no way to lock-in users, companies and countries' administrarions.
Without existing, multiple alternative, independent and fully interoperable implementations, open standards just reinforce centralization as Google proved when even #Microsoft abandoned their browser engine.
Then sure, #FreeSoftware helps with Digital #Sovereignty, since (and as long) people's #freedom is its primary concern.
But it's important to not conflate individual freedom and autonomy with digital sovereignty!
If all of your country payments are handled by US corporations, you might well use #GNU/#Hurd on your open hardware, but you are not free and your country has no sovereignty.
If all of your health data are stored by US corporations, they might well only use free software on open hardware located in your neighbourhood, but they are alware at a ssh of distance from #NSA, so you are not free and your country has no sovereignty.
What about your judges or your lawmakers exchanging unencrypted emails over #gmail or #outlook365?
Again, they can use opensource only, but you are not free, your country has no sovereignty and your vote is worth nothing.
So sure, after getting rid of US Tech we might even move to a #FOSS only stack EU-wide.
But first and foremost we need to break free from US control and surveillance.
Some opensource projects may help to ackieve this urgent goal.
Biggest ones won't and we shouldn't naively argue that going full opensource is per se useful or required to gain #DigitalSovereignty.
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
Friends, what is the FREE (zero price) and open-source + fediverse-friendly alternative for Gmail ??
(And requires no additional app ~similars to Gmail)
I'm searching on the web, but it brings me zero results.
#alternativeforgmail #gmail #OpenSourceMail
Цікаво, чому жоден месенджер не здогадався додати фічу - нагадати про якесь повідомлення пізніше? Типу, як #snooze в #gmail, або в #slack. Дуже часто в #viber або #telegram приходить щось важливе, але от прям залиш зайнятий. Ти прочитав повідомлення та можеш забути, бо почав закритись іншими справами
Just tried to update a currently running filter in Gmail, is it really true that you can no longer forward a subset of email to other emails? I used this to forward automatically utility emails to my tenant. Do they really expect me to pay for that capability?
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