Apple hides a Patriot-Act-busting “warrant canary” in its transparency report Government, Privacy, Security Add comments Feb 252014 In an attempt to get around NSA gag-orders, Apple has decided to try using the concept of a “warrant canary”. The idea is that they will continually post a notice (or “canary”) saying that they have yet to receive such an order, with removal of that notice effectively telling their customers that they were served a gag-order that month. Leave a Reply Cancel replyYou must be logged in to post a comment.