Please tell me why do organizations use canaries[0] then to tell people they where not forced to cooperate? The funny thing is that I just read a bit of the li

Please tell me why do organizations use canaries[0] then to tell people they where not forced to cooperate? The funny thing is that I just read a bit of the linked Wikipedia article to find this: Companies and organizations who no longer have warrant canaries The following is a list of companies and organizations whose warrant canaries no longer appear in transparency reports: * Apple * Reddit * Silent Circle [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary