Private.Ki Warrant Canary

A warrant canary is a public statement used by privacy-focused services to signal whether they have received certain types of secret legal demands. These demands may include orders that prohibit the service from disclosing their existence (often referred to as gag orders).

This warrant canary is updated at least once monthly.

Private.Ki Warrant Canary

As of January 28, 2026, Private.Ki states the following:

  • We have not received any secret court orders, warrants, subpoenas, or national security requests that would require us to disclose user data while prohibiting disclosure of the request itself. (By the way, we don't save user data in any non-encrypted way. So even if requested, we could not provide anything meaningful.)

  • We have not received any orders requiring the installation of backdoors, interception mechanisms, or weakening of encryption.

  • We have not been compelled to provide decrypted user content or encryption keys. (By the way, we don't save your keys in a non-encrypted form - and all content is encrypted. So even if requested, we could not provide anything meaningful.)

  • We have not been subject to any gag orders preventing us from updating this statement.

How a warrant canary works

A warrant canary is based on a simple idea:

  • The service regularly publishes a statement saying it has not received specific types of secret requests.

  • The statement is updated on a fixed schedule (for example, monthly or quarterly).

  • If the statement disappears or is no longer updated, users can reasonably assume that the service may no longer be able to make that declaration.

A warrant canary does not prove that a request has occurred, and it does not disclose details. It exists solely to increase transparency in situations where direct disclosure may be legally restricted.

Read more about warrant canaries on Wikipedia.