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Transparency Reports

The publication of transparency reports by payment processors.

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Jan 29, 2026
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How should consumers verify a VPN's transparency reports and warrant canaries before subscribing?

Consumers should and warrant canaries as useful but imperfect signals: verify publication cadence, granularity, and legal context, and cross-check claims against third‑party evidence before subscribin...

Jan 19, 2026
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Studying for court, where to find examples of redacted ESP CyberTips submitted to NCMEC

For lawyers and students preparing for court, real-world redacted CyberTipline reports submitted by Electronic Service Providers (ESPs) to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) ...

Feb 6, 2026

Can using a VPN like NordVPN prevent tracking by ISPs ?

A VPN such as can effectively stop an ISP from seeing the contents of a user’s web traffic and the specific sites visited, because it encrypts traffic and routes it through a VPN server; however, the ...

Jan 22, 2026

how to subpoena Stripe, LLC

requires issuing valid legal process in the appropriate jurisdiction and serving it to Stripe in a form the company recognizes; Stripe’s contracts define “Legal Process” to include subpoenas and state...

Jan 6, 2026

What is a warrant canary and why do VPNs use them?

A warrant canary is a public statement a service publishes saying it has not been served certain secret legal orders; if the statement disappears or stops being updated, users infer the service was li...

Jan 5, 2026

Which major VPN providers publish warrant canaries and how often are they updated?

Several well-known VPNs still publish warrant canaries, but practices vary: providers such as Perfect Privacy, Mullvad, IVPN, ProtonVPN and Surfshark publish canary statements (or historically have), ...