What Is a Warrant Canary?
A warrant canary is a public statement by a company indicating that it has NOT received certain types of legal demands. The name comes from the historical use of canaries in coal mines: if the canary stops singing, something is wrong. If the warrant canary statement disappears or stops being updated, it may indicate that the company has received a demand that prevents them from disclosing its existence.
Under U.S. law, certain government orders (such as National Security Letters) can include gag orders that prevent the recipient from disclosing that they received the order. A warrant canary works around this by stating what has NOT happened. If the statement is removed, users can draw their own conclusions.
NewsDemon Warrant Canary
As of the date shown below, the following statements are true:
Updated: March 2026
NewsDemon (K&L Technologies, Inc.) has NOT received any National Security Letters or FISA court orders.
NewsDemon has NOT been subject to any gag orders that would prevent us from disclosing demands for user data.
NewsDemon has NOT been required to provide encryption keys or implement any backdoors in our systems.
NewsDemon has NOT been compelled to modify our systems to allow surveillance or monitoring of our users.
No law enforcement agency has demanded access to our server logs or user account information through secret proceedings.
This canary is updated periodically. If this page stops being updated, or if any of the above statements are removed, users should consider whether the missing statement has been affected by a legal demand.
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NewsDemon does not log which newsgroups you visit or which articles you access. We do not track your Usenet activity. Our privacy policy explains what we collect (account information, payment data) and what we do not (usage logs, browsing activity).
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The warrant canary is one more piece of this commitment. We believe in being transparent about what we can and cannot disclose.
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