"warrant canary" meaning in All languages combined

See warrant canary on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: warrant canaries [plural]
Etymology: Allusion to a miner's canary. Head templates: {{en-noun}} warrant canary (plural warrant canaries)
  1. (US) 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. Wikipedia link: warrant canary Tags: US Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-warrant_canary-en-noun-g6cjkaEi Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "Allusion to a miner's canary.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "warrant canaries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "warrant canary (plural warrant canaries)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Law",
          "orig": "en:Law",
          "parents": [
            "Justice",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 July 9, Markus Jakobsson, editors, The Death of the Internet, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 159:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 May 30, Alex Hern, “Encryption software TrueCrypt closes doors in odd circumstances”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 July 25, Jacob Long, “Exclusive: Private Internet Access talks warrants, canaries, transparency”, in Geeksided, archived from the original on 2014-08-03:",
          "text": "A warrant canary is a defense against the gag orders that come with National Security Letters and other secret subpoenas. With a warrant canary, the site would some sort of message posted saying, for example, “we have not received a secret subpoena as of July 24, 2014.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "id": "en-warrant_canary-en-noun-g6cjkaEi",
      "links": [
        [
          "subpoena",
          "subpoena"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) 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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "warrant canary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "warrant canary"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Allusion to a miner's canary.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "warrant canaries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "warrant canary (plural warrant canaries)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 July 9, Markus Jakobsson, editors, The Death of the Internet, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 159:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 May 30, Alex Hern, “Encryption software TrueCrypt closes doors in odd circumstances”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 July 25, Jacob Long, “Exclusive: Private Internet Access talks warrants, canaries, transparency”, in Geeksided, archived from the original on 2014-08-03:",
          "text": "A warrant canary is a defense against the gag orders that come with National Security Letters and other secret subpoenas. With a warrant canary, the site would some sort of message posted saying, for example, “we have not received a secret subpoena as of July 24, 2014.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "subpoena",
          "subpoena"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) 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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "warrant canary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "warrant canary"
}

Download raw JSONL data for warrant canary meaning in All languages combined (2.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.