Reddit removes 'warrant canary', signaling US sought its user data
by Danny Yadron in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#18YG4)
For users, it offers a reminder that what they say and do on Reddit is just as likely to be targeted by investigators as Facebook posts and Gmail messages are
US national security authorities may now view Reddit as a way to spy on people.
A collection of message boards filled with notoriously vocal users, the pseudo-anonymous service on Thursday removed a line - a "warrant canary" - from its annual report on government data requests that said it had never received a secret request for user data under the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or Fisa.
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