On 14 January 2017 at 18:08, Adrian Farrel <[email protected]> wrote: >> believe that it would be an offence under the Act to disclose the fact that > one >> had received a retention notice, because that's how they're worded. > > You are, I believe, allowed to stop disclosing that you haven't received a > retention notice since stopping such a disclosure is not saying that you have > received one. > > So, it would be really cool if people could work with their legal departments > (or not :-) to send out such "we have not" notices on a timer, and then stop > when they do. > > I'd understand folk not wanting to do that and appreciate that I don't run a > service provider. But still... > > Adrian
IANAL but if I was on the government side I would probably use wording along the lines of "you may not disclose the receipt of this order". By shutting down your warrant canary you would almost certainly be in violation of that order. If I was a lawyer I could probably word it in a way that forced you to issue a press release saying that you were shutting down your canary due to it being a pointless waste of resources with no legal validity. - Mike
