Transparency Report
Updated July 29, 2026
This page summarises the legal requests we receive for information about the people who use AjaxPickering.ca. We publish it because a service that holds people's private messages should be willing to say how often it is asked to hand them over.
Figures are given in bands rather than exact counts. Our volumes are small enough that "1 production order from a named agency in a six-month period" could identify the person involved, which would defeat the point of publishing.
No legal requests have been received to date.
This is a genuine zero, not a page we have not got round to filling in. The register that produces these figures is live, and this page updates from it.
How To Read This
- Received counts requests that reached us, whether or not they were valid.
- Data produced counts requests where we actually disclosed something. It is normally lower than "received", because some requests are withdrawn, narrowed, or seek records we do not hold.
- Refused or withdrawn includes requests we declined because they lacked the legal authority required, most often a request for subscriber information or an IP address without a production order.
- Member notified counts cases where we told the affected member. Notice is our default; see our Law Enforcement Guidelines.
What This Report Does Not Include
Routine moderation, member reports of other members, and requests we handle without disclosing personal information are not counted here. Neither are internal matters.
On Warrant Canaries
We do not publish a warrant canary. Canaries have not been tested by any Canadian court, and the day one would need to change is the day it becomes either a disclosure you were ordered not to make or a false alarm. We would rather commit to reporting non-disclosure order counts once those orders lapse, which is what the table above does.
