Meaning of warrant canary | Babel Free

Definitions

A public notice that a service provider has not received a secret government subpoena for their customers' data that they would be prohibited from saying they had received.

US

Examples

“However, it may be possible, via a warrant canary or a similar technique, for a CA to communicate the existence of a secret court order to the Internet community.”

“Warrant canaries are legal tricks employed by conscientious organisations to get around the fact that certain demands from the US government cannot be disclosed publicly.”

“A warrant canary is a defense against the gag orders that come with National Security Letters and other secret subpoenas. With a warrant canary, the site would some sort of message posted saying, for example, “we have not received a secret subpoena as of July 24, 2014.””

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