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What happens if a company gets an NSL, then sells itself?
I don't have anything, much less anything to sell, but I was just wondering.
Say a company receives an NSL or similar procedure from the government, to spy on the company's users.
Then the company receives an offer, and they're open to the offer.
Or the company was already in negotiations when the NSL was received.
Do they disclose?
What happens once the sale closes?
- mchannon 11y agoGenerally the terms of a sale indemnify the seller against "cosmic rays" stuff like concealing the status of an active NSL. The civil exposure is light versus a heavy criminal exposure for leaking the information (which in any likelihood wouldn't concern the acquirer anyway). I'd consider an active NSL on par with customer data; no acquirer would expect to peruse through a target's data prior to the completion of the sale.