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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Do they also have a warrant canary?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I don't consider those to be useful anymore because a court can compel them to keep the canary up in secret, and I'm pretty sure that's already happened more than once before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

That's never happened in history

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

How would you know?

You probably wouldn't have heard about it simply because it's illegal to publicize a secret subpoena/warrant. Such orders are given as National Security Letters with a permanent gag order, going so far as to preventing the recipient from even seeking counsel; it's a massive abuse of power and due process in the US to get companies to lie and do whatever they want.