The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is under scrutiny as it demands social media companies, including Google, to reveal the identities of users critical of its immigration enforcement policies. Critics argue that this move, seen as a crackdown on dissent, undermines the rule of law and infringes on user privacy rights. The ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have urged tech companies to resist these subpoenas. In a recent court ruling, a DHS subpoena for Google data was struck down, highlighting the ongoing conflict between government authority and civil liberties. The use of secretive legal tools by the Trump administration to target dissenters has sparked widespread concern, prompting open letters to tech firms to protect their users from potential abuses.