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You can always be in trouble by the police for any reason or no reason at all. The question is law. The notion of a warrant canary is that the police cannot com
by FeepingCreature 5y ago
You can always be in trouble by the police for any reason or no reason at all. The question is law. The notion of a warrant canary is that the police cannot compel you to state that you are not under a court order. They can annoy you to lie, and they can always break the law, but they cannot legally force you to. To claim that regardless of this, the police can compel you to lie, is tantamount to saying that the rule of law has failed.
( https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq )
- vageli 5y agoHas this ever been tested in court?
- FeepingCreature 5y agoNot to my knowledge. Which can mean "no company has tried" or "no TLA has tried".
- krageon 5y ago> To claim that regardless of this, the police can compel you to lie, is tantamount to saying that the rule of law has failed. Your life quality will take a sharp negative dive if you don't conform to the spirit of what they ask you. Whether or not such things are legal really is immaterial: You will be in trouble anyway. As such, I dislike advice that leans on what the law says.