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Given that you're able to inform us currently that you've not received any capability requests, would it be legal and feasible for you to set up a warrant canar

Given that you're able to inform us currently that you've not received any capability requests, would it be legal and feasible for you to set up a warrant canary? I don't know if Australia has the same protections against compelled speech as the US [1, 2] which theoretically allow one to function, but if so, it might help encourage people to stay. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_State_Board_of_Education_v._Barnette https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_State_Board_of... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooley_v._Maynard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooley_v._Maynard

cyphar 8y ago
Warrant canaries are explicitly disallowed under this legislation (you cannot comment on the existence or non-existence of a notice and there are strong restrictions on what sort of statistics you can provide). In fact, I'm a little worried that they just said they have received no TCNs -- while you can provide aggregate statistical information over a 6-month window, if you get it wrong you're looking at a 5-year gaol sentence. We have no real free speech laws (there is common law about it but that can be overridden by legislation). There is freedom of political speech, but that's a much weaker bar. Funnily enough, parliament has actual freedom of speech.