Misunderstanding of legalese may have lead a lot of us down the wrong road.

  • melp@beehaw.org
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    15 hours ago

    I learned a new term today that illustrates this move. Warrant canary. When a company disappears a promise it’s like a canary in a coal mine.

    • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
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      6 hours ago

      Many sites have done this over the years. It’s called a warrant canary because in the footer, they’d say “we don’t comply with law-enforcement requests” … then comes the warrant, and the wording is removed.