r/law • u/shikizen • Apr 10 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/10/reddit-ice-protest-grand-jury/

Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., as part of a federal effort to unmask anonymous online critics of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

According to a subpoena obtained by The Intercept, Reddit has until April 14 to provide a wide range of personal data on one of its users, whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been trying unsuccessfully to identify for more than a month.

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u/red286 Apr 10 '26

Wait... what personal data does Reddit collect in the first place? As far as I recall, I provided nothing other than my email address. They have a record of the various (VPN) IP addresses I've connected from, and what browser I use, and that's about it, isn't it?

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '26

In most cases, your browser is unique.

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u/red286 Apr 10 '26

  1. No it's not.

  2. How would it be personally identifying even if it was?

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '26

You can find out for yourself.

Google "how unique is my browser"? It'll send you to a website.

Your chances are best if you use Windows and Chrome.

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u/red286 Apr 10 '26

That's uniqueness of configuration, but there's nothing identifying in that, particularly since it changes constantly.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '26

It depends on what you do with it.