A Canadian national who has not entered the United States in more than a decade is suing the Department of Homeland Security and its new secretary, Markwayne Mullin, over what he alleges are violations of his privacy after the agency tried to obtain his location information, activity logs and other online data from Google after he criticized the Trump administration on social media.
According to the lawsuit, DHS violated the customs law that gives the agency the power to request records from businesses and other parties. The agency allegedly sought records from Google after the man, who was not named, posted comments criticizing Trump's immigration crackdown and the killings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good, two U.S. citizens killed by immigration agents in Minneapolis earlier this year.
