Renderos added: “While the prevalence of hateful activities across Google owned platforms is a real problem, deflecting responsibility to police is not the solution.” Steven Renderos, executive director of MediaJustice, a nonprofit campaigning for a more just and participatory media wrote in an email: “In a moment of reckoning on the failure of police to keep people safe, it is reckless for Google to hand off private user information to law enforcement.” In the BlueLeaks trove, the documents are associated with the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, part of a nationwide network of fusion centers, which were created after 9/11 to facilitate information sharing between state, federal, local and tribal law enforcement agencies. CIG has been mentioned in coverage of criminal proceedings based on their reports, but its raw output to law enforcement agencies has never been exposed to public view. The Google documents containing subscriber information are signed by the company’s CyberCrime Investigation Group (CIG). The leak has been authenticated by cybersecurity experts. It contains hundreds of thousands of documents from more than 200 agencies, dated between 1996 and June 2020.
The documents come from the so-called “BlueLeaks” trove, which hackers acquired from the servers of a hosting company in Texas which had been used by several law enforcement agencies. The users were often threatening violence or otherwise expressing extremist views, often associated with the far right.
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