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A court can legally get an injunction that forces you to comply and keep your complicity secret. That's why "warrant canaries"[1] exist, a company will release
by 420official 6y ago
A court can legally get an injunction that forces you to comply and keep your complicity secret. That's why "warrant canaries"[1] exist, a company will release a regular statement where they include a line like "We have never been forced to comply with the US federal government.". That way if it does happen they can simply remove the line from future releases to make it clear without violating an injuction.
Unfortunately this doesn't get you any sort of specificity in terms of what happened with what data or why so it's a pretty crude method. Also a court could force you to keep that canary statement active which renders the whole thing moot.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
- jjones2 6y agoIt's downright pathetic that we have to rely on things like warrant canaries in Western democracies. Obviously secret warrants, secret courts, black sites, etc have absolutely _no_ place in a civilized world. It creates a two-tiered justice system: us vs them.