Your comment reinforces my point. Google would be extremely reluctant to utilize warrant canaries because of the uncertain legal consequences of doing so. The

Your comment reinforces my point. Google would be extremely reluctant to utilize warrant canaries because of the uncertain legal consequences of doing so. The same applies to declining to cooperate with government surveillance operations. We don't really know how the government likes it when a big company obstructs its surveillance goals. On HN today was a headline about Apple reversing course on a business decision voluntarily, simply to please government. > I'm also not sure how warrant canaries relate to your parents' point. The points above I believe link the two business decisions.