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> I'm not sure warrant canaries are particularly useful anymore > However, any company that stores user information is going to receive such an order or request
by DavideNL 10y ago
> I'm not sure warrant canaries are particularly useful anymore
> However, any company that stores user information is going to receive such an order or request at some point, it's practically inevitable.
I assume you are talking about the U.S. only ?
There are many other countries in the world, where gag-orders are not legally possible, or not as common as in the U.S. I would say warrant canaries are still useful there.
- linkregister 10y agoWhich countries in the world don't have legally possible gag orders?
- DavideNL 10y agoQuote from the article: "However other non-US based encrypted comms companies, such as Germany’s Tutanota, do continue to maintain a warrant canary for transparency and good practice purposes, despite not being subject to legal gag orders in the country where they are based."