warrant canary
nounEtymology
Allusion to a miner's canary.
Definitions
A public notice that a service provider has not received a secret government subpoena for…
A public notice that a service provider has not received a secret government subpoena for their customers' data that they would be prohibited from saying they had received.
- However, it may be possible, via a warrant canary or a similar technique, for a CA to communicate the existence of a secret court order to the Internet community.
- Warrant canaries are legal tricks employed by conscientious organisations to get around the fact that certain demands from the US government cannot be disclosed publicly.
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